About Me

I have lived in Snoqualmie for 28 years; I am married to Rebecca and have a daughter and 3 grandchildren.

I currently own a small cutlery business and work part time at the Safeway Fuel Center on the Ridge. I am retiring from Safeway at the end of October 2019, to concentrate on my business and to have time to serve on Snoqualmie City Council.

I started my working life as a janitor then a donut fryer for Winchell’s donuts in L.A., when I graduated from High School I went in to the trades as a machinist and continued for 30 years. When jobs started going off shore I changed careers and started working on a passion of mine, Emergency Management, Homeland Security and Law Enforcement work. I ended up as the chief of police for the Snoqualmie Tribe. I am still certified as a probation and parole officer. While I was a police officer I began to focus on Emergency Management and Homeland Security, where I spent a lot of hours training and becoming certified to teach and write emergency plans. I am certified as an emergency management responder to the same level as most police and fire chiefs, which is a level 400 incident command.

While employed by the Tribe I was also fortunate to be able to work on transit for the valley and transportation issues for the Tribe, as well. I was part of the team that set up the Snoqualmie Valley Transportation shuttles, which are a vital part of our community and which we must still support, so that our citizens can move around the valley for work, family and medical appointments, etc.

I continued in Emergency Management by starting a consulting company. While working as a consultant I had the privilege of writing the emergency Plan for the city of North Bend. This was approved by the state of Washington and serves the City of North Bend to this day.

While operating my consulting business, I also worked with our Seniors at the Mt. Si Senior Center as the facilities and operations manager, I also drove a shuttle for the Snoqualmie Valley Shuttle and know firsthand what the City needs to improve transit in the Valley.

I went on to work in the butcher shop at the Snoqualmie Ridge Safeway and after a year and a half there transferred to the fuel service center at Safeway to continue to work with the community by serving the citizens in Snoqualmie, which takes me full circle to my run for City Council where I look forward to serving the community as a public servant.