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, six days a week, keeping the combine serviced, making sure nothing caught fire, hauling twenty tons of grain through fields that didn't care how old you were. Suburbs kid turned farm hand. I also worked yogurt shops and pizza joints. I quit high school sports and enrolled in Running Start — I wanted more time to earn money and learn things the classroom wasn't teaching.

I got a CS degree at EWU and landed at Cadwell Industries as an intern. I built an application that automated test plan and test report document generation, significantly increasing the efficiency of the process, and earned a full-time offer. I spent 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 — the COVID years. Isolated, turbulent, relentless. The relationship I was in fell apart. The rental lease ended. I moved back to my hometown in the Tri-Cities and started over. Difficult and necessary in equal measure. What followed was simpler: boating on the river, backpacking, good books, long conversations, time with people I love. I came out the other side with clearer values and a new direction.

One morning after a great day on the water, I decided to make a video — pulled footage from my phone and friends' feeds, cut it into something short, posted it. People loved it. I was hooked. Started planning more, bought gear, committed to the craft. When someone asked me to film their wedding, I said yes — nervous, out of my comfort zone, somewhere new. They loved it. Word spread. I filmed weddings and events for a few years, built real numbers on YouTube, and then it started feeling like another job. The business is on hold. The camera isn't.

During this time I met and married my wife. From Arc, I moved to CadLink — the backbone of the entire Cadwell ecosystem — and became Product Quality Test Lead in 2025, still the 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. I started using AI and am building faster, at higher quality, across more domains than I could before. My wife and I want to start a family — a road that has turned out harder and more expensive than we expected. That hasn't changed where we're headed.

What I've learned is that you can't change the world — but you can change yourself, and that change ripples outward in ways you can't predict or control. The most honest thing I can do is live as fully as possible. 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.