I am a licensed civil engineer and general contractor with a passion for building. Obsessed from a young age, I spent most of my childhood constructing Legos and helping my dad renovate the house. At 17, a high school teacher helped me get an internship at Turner Construction and thus started my career working on high-rises, stadiums, and other large structures. After school at the University of Southern California, I worked as an engineer for a firm called Simpson Gumpertz and Hegar designing building enclosures and investigating building failures. I then moved to a company called RAD Urban and joined a team designing and building multifamily modular apartments and high-rises in Oakland. I eventually built myself a van and ventured out on the road for a few years to climb whilst pondering perhaps too much, where to take my life. An interest in minimalistic living and desire to provide more housing to the world pushed me to want to create more affordable housing options in mountain towns. With that long term vision, I co-founded a van conversion company, Truckee Van Co. as an entrepreneurial experiment. I currently work for myself designing and building homes on a path to build more minimalistic forms of housing. Below are some of the recent projects I’ve worked on.