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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. I worked yogurt shops and pizza joints, 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. I 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. Meaningful work. Still is.

Then came 2020 and 2021 — isolated, turbulent, relentless. Life didn't go the way I'd planned, and I moved back to my hometown in the Tri-Cities to start 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.

One morning after a good day on the water, I cut some phone footage 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. Then somewhere along the way it started feeling like another job — and life, priorities, and interests had shifted enough since year one that I no longer had the time or passion to keep chasing it. 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, and the road hasn't always been the one we planned. That hasn't changed where we're headed.

I moved from Arc to CadLink and became Product Quality Test Lead in 2025, then Product Quality Test Manager in 2026 — the same work I've always done, now with a team and an organization to run. Alongside it, I took on political service as treasurer of the Franklin County Republican Party, and more recently as treasurer of the Tri-Cities Adult Hockey Club — because the health of an organization usually comes down to whether someone's willing to own the boring, necessary parts.

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.