Engineer by trade.
Builder by nature.

At fifteen, my first real job was driving wheat truck during harvest on a farm in eastern Washington — up before dawn, ten-hour days, hauling ten tons of grain through fields that didn't care how old you were. Suburbs kid turned farm hand. I worked yogurt shops and pizza joints. I quit high school sports and enrolled in Running Start — I wanted to earn money, learn things that mattered, and stop waiting for my real life to start.

I got a CS degree at EWU and landed at Cadwell as an intern. Built something useful, earned a full-time offer, and spent the next several years building software quality systems for Arc — software that monitors the electrical activity of the human brain, used in seizure study and diagnosis. It was meaningful work. It still is.

Then came 2020 and 2021. Isolated, turbulent, relentless. The relationship I was in fell apart. The lease ended. I moved back to my hometown in the Tri-Cities and started over. Difficult and necessary in equal measure — the kind of reset you don't choose but, looking back, wouldn't undo. What remained when everything else dissolved: the river, the mountains, good books, long conversations, time with people I love. I came out the other side with less than I started with and a clearer idea of what mattered. That trade felt right.

One morning after a good day on the water, I pulled footage from my phone and friends' feeds, cut it into something short, and posted it. People watched. I was hooked — bought gear, committed to the craft, said yes when someone asked me to film their wedding. Word spread. And then somewhere along the way it started feeling like another job — like I was making content instead of making something. So I stepped back. The camera's still rolling — just on my terms.

Somewhere in the middle of all that, I met my wife. There's more to say here than fits in a bio — she's the most significant thing that's happened to me, and the clearest reason for most of what comes after. We're building a life together, trying to start a family. That road has turned out harder and more expensive than we expected. That hasn't changed where we're headed.

I moved from Arc to CadLink and became Product Quality Test Lead in 2025 — the same work I've always done, now with a team to lead. I stepped into political service as treasurer of the Franklin County Republican party, because politics is downstream from culture and culture is built by people who show up.

Not for fame. Not for wealth. For my wife, for the family to come, for the people around me, for my God. I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to build a life worth pointing toward — and trusting that if the light is real, people will find their own way to it.