Graduate of carpentry Dept. Haverhill Trade School, Haverhill MA, and have been in construction all my life, I was in the Army for 3 years where I was a wheeled and tracked vehicle mechanic, fuel electric specialist, Sr. recovery. I worked residential, commercial and industrial construction for 15 years, ran my own framing crew for 15 years, and remodeling company until I retired. I have worked on houses as old as 1691.

I like fly fishing, computer forensics, gardening, and took flying lessons, (did my solo in 2004), would love to get off this planet again someday.