Bio:   I was born and raised here in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and will be 34 years old in May of this year.  I have a beautiful wife and two wonderful healthy children ages 5 and 7. I have lived in the Edmond/Deer Creek area for about three years.  I have been involved in the Architecture and Engineering industry for a little over ten years. Although I worked in the Civil industry for approximately two years before landing my first architecture job. I played sports growing up my whole life, I played Junior College baseball where I was a pitcher and an academic All-American in 2002-2003 at Redlands. Playing all those sports growing up may very well be why my competitive nature shows through at all the AIA Kickball tournaments and any other event I may be involved in.  I have been with ADG for about 5 years and love the projects and people I work with.

 

How long have you been a member of AIA? 8+ years

 

What's your favorite AIA Central Oklahoma event?  I loved two -- the kickball and the volleyball tournaments last year.

 

What's your favorite thing about AIA?   My favorite thing about AIA is the ability it has to bring different like-minded professionals together for growth and fellowship. It creates a social platform that bridges the gap between different styles of architecture and practice while allowing members to gain insight through a holistic viewpoint.

 

What drew you to architecture?  When I was around nine or ten years old my parents were looking to buy, or build a house in a new area. I was amazed at the different types of floor plans that we looked at and how vastly different they all were. So, I asked my parents to buy me some grid paper and I began to sketch out floor plans that included my parents interests and desires. I began to listen to their wish list so I could try to incorporate them into a living floor plan. I was hooked! Over the next few months I couldn't stop drawing more and more floor plans for houses, the houses always getting bigger and better until my imagination really exceeded any actual budgetary reality. In that moment at the age of nine I knew that point I wanted to be involved in architecture.

 

Do you do any volunteer work?  I'm a Life Church volunteer and I coach Little League football, baseball and basketball. And, I volunteer for AIA Central Oklahoma, of course.

 

What's your favorite piece/place of design in Oklahoma?  Any of the projects I have worked on. No, seriously, probably the Stage Center/Botanical Gardens area or The American Indian Cultural Center & Museum.

 

If you were a super hero, who would you be?   Because of my Revit modeling background, I would have to say The Green Lantern or Batman, mostly because I would have a firm grasp of what it means to be able to model or conjure anything from imagination, or even use one of my self-made tools that I needed to conquer evil (in a ".rfa format" of course).

 

Window or aisle?  Window