When I was a kid, my parents got me Lego sets and I would sit alone for hours, content to mix and match pieces, whether they amounted to anything that resembled objects in the real world or not. 

I began asking questions about how the world around me worked. I would use what I now know as ‘logical extremes’ to answer those questions. I was having thought experiments well before I knew what they were.

I fell in love with music sometime early in middle-school. It felt like electricity in my veins. I didn’t know anything about what drew me to it back then, but I knew it made me feel different.

Curiosity has driven me from an early age and I think the creative outlets in my life are a product of those questions.

I got my first construction job at the age of 20 and was instantly drawn to the feeling of accomplishment at the end of the day—A feeling that was more concrete than I had known before. I started as a roofer. I was literally putting a roof over someone’s head. To keep them dry, to keep them warm. As I moved up the ladder (so to speak) I did more actual carpentry and began to notice that the math that I had been so bad at in school began to make sense in a more tangible way. It was giving away the secrets of how things work. All of those times my teachers told me that I would need to know ‘such and such an equation’ when I grew up—It turns out they weren’t kidding.

Twin Peaks Woodworks formed in 2008. We got into custom built-ins and furniture shortly after. Our increasingly detailed projects eventually led into the world of design. At the time, I was drawing built-ins, furniture, and floor plans by hand, the old way. As the projects grew, I began learning CAD. And even though CAD is my primary design medium at this point, I still do a lot of concept drawings by hand—because it’s fun. And because you can feel the design—Like electricity. 

Twin Peaks Woodworks has now transitioned into a cabinetry, millwork, and design operation. It’s a milestone in my lifelong pursuit of fine woodworking and dedication to building things well, with curiosity, and with precision.

Around the same time that I started Twin Peaks Woodworks, I joined a band called Caspian. This is the other major creative outlet in my life. For fourteen years, I’ve been making music and touring the world with them. Although we’re not the road-dogs we used to be, we’re still releasing music and seeing far off places I never dreamed of being able to visit, much less bring our music to. We’ve experienced all of our ups and downs together, as brothers, and I couldn’t be more proud to call them my friends.

I was born and raised in Washington DC. I’ve moved up and down the northeast coast and have happily landed here in Portland, Maine where I live with my wife, Jenna, and our two dogs, Scotch and Watson.

I experience joy—just from the creation, but I get satisfaction from building things well, knowing that these things will outlast me.