I was born in Rexburg, Idaho and as a young lad spent the beginning of my life in that darn cold city. When I was a kid I was about as blonde as they come. I've been referred to "albino", "peach fuzz" and so forth...

When I turned 10 my family moved to Alabama with the military. Six months later we headed right back to Idaho, although this time we moved to Boise.  Contray to popular belief I have never worked on a farm raising potatoes.  In fact I wouldn't know how to grow one if I tried.

In my junior high and high school years I became in interested in photography.  I took three years of photography as well as a journalism class for my high school yearbook. In high school alone I took over 200 rolls of film and spent many hours in the darkroom. I got a few good prints here and there and placed some of my photography in The Photographer's Forum Magazine. I also won a Superior award in photojournalism from the Idaho Journalism Association.

In high school I enjoyed physics and chemistry and entered the Idaho State Science Competition and took 2nd place in the Mousetrap Car competition for distance.

After high school I lived in Japan for two years as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I served in the Japan, Tokyo South mission living in the cities of: Machida, Yokohama, Tokorozawa, Hibarigaoka, and Hachioji.

Upon returning home from Japan I spent a year at Boise State University before transferring to Brigham Young Universtiy. In 2001 graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering and a minor in Japanese. I did two internships in Japan attempting to apply some engineering skills and learning technical Japanese.

During my internships in Japan I worked for a small engineering firm (Engineering System CO.) located in the Japanese Alps in the city of Matsumoto. I learned to fly the world's smallest counter rotating helicopter. By doing so my role was to demonstrate the helicopter in one of the world's largest air shows and be a spokesman for the company which spoke very little English. After my first summer in Japan I demonstrated the helicopter at the Oshkosh AirVenture airshow and was then put on BBC TV in England for a high tech TV show called Tomorrows World. I was also published in several flying magazines based in the United States and Europe. The following summer I returned to Japan with my father. I continued to hone my flying skills while we assembled four new air craft and learned all we could about the mechanics of the mini-helicopters. My father then became the United States dealer for the helicopter and since then we have been attending air shows around the United States demonstrating and explaining the unique one-man helicopter. For more info check out our dealership web site at: www.acecraftusa.com

Just after graduation I married the love of my life; the former Julie Stafford. Julie was attending graduate school therefore I decided I might as well do the same. I proceeded to do research in Electronics Manufacturing focusing on robotics and automation. I developed an economical process for placing solder paste on printed circuit boards that did not require expensive stencils required in mass production. This gave us the ability to make prototype printed circuit boards or low volumes of boards at a greatly reduced cost. In the fall of 2003 I completed my research and graduated with a Master's in Electronics Engineering from BYU.

Soon thereafter I accepted a position with Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems, Inc. as a Design Engineer. I work at the Toyota Technical Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan designing vehicle electrical systems. I have mainly worked on the Toyota Avalon, but have also spent time on the new Toyota Tundra and the all new Toyota Venza.