I was born in Fort Myers, Florida, and raised in North Fort Myers — small family, one sister, a lot of sports, and a lot of time working with my hands. I went to Riverdale High School in Fort Myers, played football for the North Fort Myers Knights, and I’ve been a Miami Dolphins fan my whole life. That mix still runs the way I work: show up, outwork the room, and don’t leave a broken process sitting there because “that’s how we’ve always done it.”

I started in granite and marble countertops and never really left the floor. Shop work turned into operations. Operations turned into fixing companies that were already in trouble. I learned CNC programming, 2D CAD, installation, sales, and the unglamorous parts — scheduling, job tracking, quality, the P and L — because that’s what actually moves a fabrication business.

The short version of the career is on my resume. The through-line is this: I got good at walking into a noisy shop, finding the errors everyone had started to live with, and rebuilding the system so the work could scale. Paperless job flow. Machines that actually run. Production that hits the board without a pile of remakes behind it.

I also built two kitchen and bath companies of my own from nothing — websites, leads, templating, fabrication, install, books, the whole stack. That chapter taught me the difference between running someone else’s operation and owning the outcome.

I’m still that kid from North Fort Myers. Florida is home. Football is non-negotiable. And I’m at my best when the shop, the office, and the schedule are finally pulling in the same direction.