My family settled in Torbolton Township in 1842, near Woodlawn which is 10 minutes north of Kanata. Growing up on a farm and having helped Dad, a carpenter by trade, build homes from the ground up showed me that anything is doable with the right attitude and perseverance. My Mother strengthened this desire to move forward. These traits helped me through university and college, where I learned how government and business function. From there, I helped a start up orthopaedic surgical design and manufacturing company, while wearing many different hats.

For the past twenty years, I have, like many, accumulated different work skills including telecommunications contracting for Rogers and Bell where you have the opportunity to see into people’s homes, first hand, and gain an appreciation of differing tastes and lifestyles while providing solutions to their problems. I have been in every neighbourhood in the city, I know about 80% of the streets from Carleton Place to Cumberland.