I was born in Peoria, Illinois. The first thing I remember about my life is a house fire. I was three. The second house fire came years later, after we'd moved away and come back. We lost everything that second time. Both times, I came out alive — and I've spent the rest of my life trying to understand why.I played football in high school. I was a three-star athlete. I went to college on that. Football was supposed to be the path. It wasn't. The Navy was. I enlisted, and they sent me to Pearl Harbor. I never left. In Hawaiʻi I met Tiffany. She is the love of my life and the spine of everything I've built since. We've been married more than seventeen years. Together we raised four children and now have fourteen grandchildren. She is the first person I trust with anything — the books, the businesses, the boys we mentor, all of it. In 2012 we started ATN Construction. We started with limited resources and the kind of faith that doesn't come with a backup plan. We doubled revenue year after year. In 2021 we hit the Inc. 5000 list, the Hawaii Business Top 250, and a project record that included a $34M home in Orange County, California. I was named NKBA Person of the Year. In 2024, Modern Luxury Hawaii named me Modern Man of the Year.None of that is the point. The point is what I learned in the building. That's what the books are about. My first book, Builder of All Things, was published by AVAIL in 2025. It became an Amazon #1 New Release in its category. It's for the entrepreneur and the leader — anyone whose work is also worship — looking for a framework that doesn't make them choose between success and purpose. My second book, The Empty Cistern: When God Builds in the Dark, is in final editorial stages with traditional publishers. It's for the builder who got stopped — broken, bankrupt, divorced, lost — and is looking for the kind of testimony that doesn't pretend the dark wasn't dark. In 2026 I founded WeStay Technologies. WeStay is a coordination platform for accessory dwelling units in Hawaiʻi — a path for homeowners who want to build but can't navigate the system alone. It's the next thing I'm building. It's also the answer to a question I've been asking the construction industry for years: why does this have to be so hard for the people who actually own the land?I co-host The Tool Room podcast with Sage Adams and Mario Quezada — three builders, three business owners, three men of faith. Family, construction, business, legacy. New episodes weekly.I live in Kapolei, Oʻahu, with Tiffany. I run job sites in the morning, write in the afternoon, and try to be present for the people God has put in front of me. My motto is simple: I build things. And God builds me.