Personal Bio

Originally from Nevada, I have been a Seattleite since 1995. I met my wife, Natalie, in October of that same year and we were married in 2000. My daughter, Ella Josephine, was born in 2009 followed by my son, Samuel Paul, in 2012.

My hobbies include flying, scuba diving, industrial design and music (piano/guitar).

As a private pilot, the code of "being active, not reactive" carries through to every aspect of my life. Here are some of my favorite quotes, some born from aviation:

"I owned the world that hour as I rode over it...free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them."
-Charles Lindbergh

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
-Helen Keller

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft would win by fearing to attempt."
-William Shakespeare