"If your only tool is a hammer, everything is a nail." Meaning, if you only have one option to solve a problem, it will never be solved correctly.

I'm funny, that's my passion, talent, and mostly an interest too. Seriously though, I love energy efficiency. I'll probably never have the most building science knowledge on the field team, but I bring a strong "human element" to my job in the way I interact with supers, trades, co-workers, and everyday people I meet through my job. I listen to what they say and I remember things so that in six months when I see a particular trade person again, I can ask how the wedding went or if their daughter's volleyball team did well this season. It's a connection that is missing in the abrasive industry of construction. Just my $0.02.

I juggle. I have a knack for remembering extremely trivial facts that will help no-one, but are always fun to pull out when the conversation gets awkward with people I'm just meeting for the first time. I'm always on time for things, never late. That's a talent isn't it?

Claire- Wife, Liam- Son, Chloe & Bridget- Daughters

A quick run to the grocery store, flag football/gymnastics practice, required attendance for a kids birthday party, mow the lawn, dial in the Michigan score, prep for the nights hockey game, whiskey, fall asleep in my chair by the end of the second period of the hockey game.

Detroit Michigan, Wilmington NC, Vancouver WA, Denver CO and almost Canada because they wouldn't let me back into the US since I didn't declare some beer I was trying to smuggle back into the US.

I love 80's music, all of it.

Reducing residential energy consumption one LED bulb at a time. Helping an unknown homeowner to have the most energy efficient, comfortable, and rewarding home within my abilities as a building science person.