Being from a large family in a small dairy town in Western New York, I went to a small town school that Trinity very much reminds me of. I served 18 1/2 years in the military, with eight of that being in Air Force Special Operations, where our Moto was derived from Isaiah 6:8. The mindset of an Air Commando being, “Here am I, send me” has stayed with me even after retiring from the military. Seeing and hearing about other schools having STEAM Programs, and a return to shop class and home economics, I heard God saying to me that we needed something like that to both expand our offerings at Trinity, and enrich our students lives with new experiences and skills to take with them into adulthood. And with that, I heard Him saying, “who shall I send?” SEND ME of course was my response.

My final years in the military were spent in Aircraft Fabrication, and using my GI Bill to attend University of Alaska for Welding Technologies and Fabrication. In civilian life, I’ve owned a high end fabrication shop building show rods and road race cars. Retiring again from that after 20 years, I now own a 3D printing company specializing in super detailing parts for scale industrial and agricultural modelers, and professional scale modeling services. I look forward to using the gifts God has given me with 49 years of scale modeling, 25 years of fabrication, 8 years of CAD and 3D printing, and 18 years of teamwork, training, knowledge and experience in the military to assist Trinity’s wonderful school and staff in any way I am able.

I have been married for 3 years to my lovely wife Beata, and my son Gunnarr is going into the 5th grade this year at Trinity.

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BS, Welding Technologies / Fabrication
Air Force Aircraft Fabrication School,

Aberdeen Proving Grounds, w/Honors