About Me

I am mechanical engineer to the core. My experience in the mechanical world started after graduation from high school (1973, Indian River High School, Chesapeake, Virginia). I wanted a job that offered skills I could carry anywhere I went (thanks for all the encouragement dad, miss you) and accordingly began an apprenticeship at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock as an apprentice pipefitter. Not to blow my own horn but I was pretty good at this and my last year was spent in the Design Section in Building 600. I spent 7 years in the yard and finally got tired of the long drive to and from work. I then found a job with the Public Works Center, Naval Station, Norfolk in the Central Power Plant, Building P-1. A power plant is a pipefitters dream and I was happy during the 4 years I worked there. During this time I realized I wanted more from life than being a pipefitter, so I began taking engineering classes at Old Dominion University. After 2 years of night classes I left my pipefitters job and took on numerous part time jobs to pay for full time classes. 3 years later I graduated (yes, it took 5 years). My first job was with a local consulting firm doing Department of Defense work and learning the ropes. My skills increased and I actually began to understand what it mean to be a consulting engineer. Several firms later I took a position as mechanical department head and assisted in growing the firm from a hand full of young engineers to a successful firm now with 50 plus employees. I left that firm for the opportunity to start my own firm .

I am a licensed professional engineer in the states of Virginia and North Carolina. I tend to enjoy the more intricate systems associated with hospitals and medical facilities but also enjoy interacting with "experienced" architects, mechanical contractors and building owners.

Feel free to call me on my cell phone, 757-630-2863.

I am married to the most wonderful woman in the world, have 2 sons and 1 grandson. Me, the wife and dog spend as much time as possible in Buxton, North Carolina where we have a trailer close in proximity to the beach. Life to me, is a beach. Enough said.