I grew up in a military family, my father a Lt. Col in the Air Force and my mother a stay-at-home mom. We lived all over the United States until my father retired in 1982 in Oklahoma. I started college at the University of Oklahoma and in 1989 graduated from California State University Sacramento with a degree in mechanical engineering. After graduation, I was hired by The Boeing Co in Seattle Washington where we lived until 2017 when Boeing moved us to Huntington Beach, California. I retired in the summer of 2022 as the Chief Engineer for the Boeing Commercial airplane programs; 747-8 and Boeing Out of Production fleets. During my 32 years with The Boeing Company, I held multiple positions in management and as an engineer for the majority of new airplane development programs. We also spent a wonderful year on international assignment in Naples, Italy for the 787 program. My wife and I have two children, a son-in-law and a granddaughter. We first fell in love with the Central Coast area in 2012 when our daughter started at CalPoly and decided to move here when we retired. My days are now filled with family, friends, travel, biking, babysitting, hiking, classic car restoration, volunteering, home improvement and maybe even a little consulting (jury still out on this one).