My wife, Ericka, and I have a dressage training and show program, training horses and riders of all levels, traveling to many shows including national shows like the Young Horse Championship and the US Dressage Finals. 

At 15, I started working at a local Hanoverian breeding farm near me. I worked my way through high school and then college, where I earned a finance degree. In college I was hired at a community bank. I enjoyed my work at the bank, but I missed the horses so I went back to the breeding farm, eventually starting our own dressage training business.

I served for nine years on the Executive Board of the California Dressage Society (CDS); six of those years I served as president. On the CDS board I served on many committees including as chair of the Budget and Finance Committee and chair of the Championship Show Committee.