Background built on grit.

I learned early that nothing worth keeping comes easy.

I’ve spent my career working in environments where plans collide with reality—on jobsites and boardrooms, in growing businesses under pressure, and on land that doesn’t care about forecasts or excuses. Those experiences shaped how I operate: solve the problem in front of you, make do with what you have, and leave things stronger than you found them.

My most significant role was that of a senior member of a leadership team of a fast-growing industrial construction company. Growth came fast and conditions were rarely ideal. My responsibility was to help keep the business standing while it scaled—tightening forecasting, enforcing contract discipline, aligning operations, and stepping in wherever the business was breaking. Over a short period, the company grew from under $30 million to nearly $100 million in revenue. That didn’t happen because conditions were perfect—it happened because people adapted, decisions got made, and problems were owned.

Before that, I earned my credibility inside construction operations—running warehouses, projects, fixing inventory, equipment and supply chain breakdowns, and overseeing the ground-up build of a 5 acre warehouse facility. Construction taught me toughness and accountability. When something goes wrong, you don’t debate it—you fix it. Strategy only matters if it survives weather, labor shortages, schedule pressure, and cost overruns.

My foundation is in marketing and public relations, where I learned how to build momentum with limited resources—earning attention, trust, and results without excess. That experience sharpened my ability to communicate clearly, adapt quickly, and turn constraints into leverage.

Outside of my professional work, I manage my family’s farm in tandem with my uncle—an operation that has been worked continuously for five generations. We manage hundreds of acres of farmland and rangeland and a commercial cattle operation. Farming hardens your perspective. You learn to work through bad years, unpredictable markets, and thin margins. You learn to repair instead of replace, improvise instead of complain, and make decisions that keep the operation alive for the next generation.

Across construction, finance, marketing, and agriculture, the thread is the same. I thrive in hard situations. I build systems that work when conditions aren’t perfect. I value ingenuity over polish, discipline over optimism, and resilience over shortcuts.

I don’t chase easy wins. I build things that last—because I’ve had to.