My Engineering Career

I came to Arizona in 2014 to start a new phase of my career in technical marketing of hard-rock mining wear parts.  I worked with mines across Arizona and throughout the United States, as well as internationally in Canada, Mexico, and Mongolia.

To work in a mine, safety training is required. In addition to the annual MSHA (Mine Safety and Health Administration) training, I also received site specific training at dozens of mines.  My MSHA training included 40-hour Underground Training and Coal.  I repeated the same Confined Space or Working at Heights training several times per year.  I take safety very seriously knowing safety training "rules" are mostly written in blood.

Throughout my entire engineering career, I have performed inspections without being an "inspector". I inspected parts during manufacturing and in service. Sometimes I inspected field failures and participated in failure investigations.

My career in heavy industry began on the road, servicing pulp and paper operations across North America as a field service engineer. From the forests of the Pacific Northwest, where I worked in forest products design and production, to the rugged demands of dragline rigging, wear component design, and mining-focused field engineering, I've built a hands-on, solutions-driven path through some of the most challenging environments in the sector. Whether in a foundry or a hard rock mine, my focus has always been practical innovation and performance in the field.

How it Started

Always a hard worker, as a middle-schooler I would catch the Berry Bus in Oregon to go pick strawberries. Missing that bus one early morning started me on my engineering path thanks to the kind owner of Marson's Vacuum Supply who saw me waiting and asked if I wanted to come work for him as a vacuum repairman. After high school, along with joining the United States Marine Reserves, infantry unit, I went to Tennessee Technological University where I received my BS in Mechanical Engineering.

Giving Back

Service has been a steady constant in my journey. From early volunteer efforts as my daughter's soccer coach and my son's Cub Scout Pack Leader, to more recent leadership roles as the Vice Chair of the Apache Junction Democrats and community roles as Precinct Committeeman, and recent graduate of the City of Apache Junction Citizen Leadership Institute, I've always believed that meaningful change begins with showing up.

Fun Stuff

I enjoy mountain biking in the Goldfield mountains, volunteering with the Forest Service doing trail maintenance with a local team in the Superstition mountains, camping with my wife and our rescue dog, tinkering on my budget racecar, and always the designer – working on my latest technique to harvest rainwater.