After 30 years of experience in the live event production side of the AV industry, I decided to pursue my CTS certification and pivot to the world of AV engineering.  As the Director of Sales/System Designer for a small AV Integrator, I dove head-first into working with all aspects of the program/design/construction and verification phases of AV projects.  I then accepted the role of Chief AV Engineer at the National Institutes of Health, responsible for the AV and Broadcast systems operations across the entire campus in Bethesda, MD.  I earned my CTS-I credentials from AVIXA in 2022; and in 2023, I moved to the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC where I serve as the AV Engineer, working with a tremendous team of AV Techs.  Currently, I am studying and working towards my CTS-D credential. I am a life-long learner and love to take advantage of the training opportunities available through AVIXA, Crestron Training Institute, Harmon Professional, Extron, Biamp, Audinate and Q-Sys.  I hold more than 20 certifications from these industry-leading manufacturers. Creative problem-solving, system design, maintenance and troubleshooting, teamwork and mentoring are each activities that drive my passion for working in the audiovisual industry and keep me smiling at work each day.

AV professional experienced in system design, installation, control programming, troubleshooting, RMA processes. Currently working as AV designer for Plan Group with prior experience with Extron (OEM), VMWare (end user). At work, I am all ears for all AV talks. Videowalls are my favorite part of AV and signal processing and distribution is my bread and butter. Projection systems are still a 'Why this' for me and docking stations make things interesting. Audio processors are a 'How' for me and video processors are a 'Wow'. UCC is a path less taken and controllers are the boxes that brought me to AV. Live events are the greener grass on the other side. Off work, I'm a beer with pizza kinda person with occasional buffet ventures. Fond of driving in mountainous terrain and roam around in the city on my motorbike.