Basic Facts
- Origins: US east coast
- Current residence: Corvallis, OR, USA
- Age: old enough to run for President, not old enough to retire
- Day job: engineer
- Other hobbies: brewing beer
Piping Summary
- Instructors
- Burt Mitchell
- Lyric Todill
- Dan Cole
- Jason Barth
- Peter Kent
- First lesson: August 1998
- First performance: March 1999
- First solo competition: July 2001
- Solo competition grades
- 4: 2004
- 3: 2005-2006
- 2: 2007-2009
- 1: 2010-present
Band History
- Virginia Military Institute Pipes and Drums, Lexington, VA, 1998-2002 (pipe major 2001-2002), noncompetitive/Grade 5
- Baltimore City Pipe Band, summer 2000, noncompetitive
- Macdonald Pipe Band, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003-2006, Grade 4
- Graham Highlanders of St. Johnsbury Academy, St. Johnsbury, VT, 2006-2008, Grade 4
- MacMillan Pipe Band, Rockville, MD, 2010-2012, Grade 3
- MacMillan-Birtles Pipe Bands, Rockville, MD, 2011, Grade 4 (playing instructor)
- Portland Metro Pipe Band, Portland, OR, 2013-2019, Grade 2
- Willamette Valley Pipes and Drums, Salem, OR, 2020-present, noncompetitive (pipe major)
My pipes
- Drones: Henderson, circa 1949
- Drone reeds: Crozier glass fiber
- Bag: Gannaway
- Chanter: blackwood Naill, circa 1993
