More about me:

1. I grew up here, went to school here, graduated from Kam High and Cariboo college/UCC with a B.Sc.,
2. I am happily married to my amazing wife, Kathleen, for 29+ years and together we are blessed with 3 amazing curious young adults,
3. I am a health care profession and a 20+ year scratch start business owner.
4. I have a background in Fire Ecology and Forestry prior my educational pursuit as a health care professional,
5. I have worked in the forest industry, including Tolko, for more than a decade while taking my Master's at SFU,
6. I was VP of the Cariboo student society in 1993-94 and was largely responsible for the creation of the borrowing levy that resulted in the Independence Centre at TRU being built.
7. I am an active charter member and twice past President of the Rotary club of Kamloops Aurora Centennial,
8. I love the outdoors and anything I can do outside, including cycling, skiing, hiking, hunting, fishing, archery, gardening, to name a few.
9. I also like cooking, baking, mechanics, welding, wood working, stain glass creation.

Some governance experience:

1. Kamloops Airport Authority Society 2023-present, and chaired the YKA redevelopment working group that defined a landscape plan designed to build a regional airport, not just develop at an airport, and part of the team who helped with the YKA head lease extension.
2. Vice-chair of the Shuswap Watershed council 2024-present and helped with developing new 5 year strategic plan that focussed on water quality and quantity issues plus landscape level approaches to watershed security.
3. Thompson Nicola Hospital board member from 2024-present, and proud to have seen the successful start to the long overdue Kamloops Cancer Centre.
4. TNRD board member 2023-present,
5. City councillor 2022 to present, with 5 months experience as deputy mayor, chair of a select committee 2024-26,
6. Presented to over 40 provincial ministers and 2 federal ministers and more with senior ministry staff on issues related to policing and safety, housing needs, financial downloading of costs, justice reforms, removal of the decriminalization of illicit drugs, FireSmart funding, and the replacement of the red bridge to name but a few.