I am a skateboarder, I am an engineer, and I make a concerted effort to spend my time doing what I love to do.

I was born and raised in Springfield Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC, by my two wonderful parents. It was here that my two main interests of creating and skating took hold.

For as long as I can remember, I have loved to make things. Working in my families basement shop from a young age, my parents gave me the opportunity to work with my hands. Saws, drills, hand tools and rattle cans were the tools that helped me start learning what I know, and helped drive my parents crazy filling the house with dust and fumes.

Not only did I learn how to build things here, I also learned how to skateboard here. I always had a board around, but it was when I got a loaded dervish and started longboarding with my friends Sean and Chaz that things really started to take hold. Throughout high school I became more and more interested in it and when the Orangatang wheels video “Let Go” came out, I decided that downhill was what I wanted to start doing. Thanks to two local longboarding legends Adam Stokowski and Adam Colton who kept the stoke high and gifted me bags of used wheels and the occasional prototype, I followed my passion for longboarding and haven’t stopped.

Since Springfield, I have moved across the country and earned my Bachelor of Science degree in Manufacturing Engineering at Western Washington University where I have had the good fortune of meeting some of the kindest, most sincere people I could have wished for. Some of them I met through school, others skateboarding, but all of them have made a great impact on who I am today.

After graduating from Western, I moved back across the country to embark upon my graduate study for a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina State University where I will be graduating in November of 2020.