About
I spent over 20 years in banking, leading analytics organizations of up to 90 people with a $12 million operating budget. The work was using data to solve complicated problems on a deadline, with real money attached and people waiting on the answer.
In 2025, I left to build houses.
What I bring to your project
I bought my first house in 2004 and have been working on houses, mostly my own, ever since. My wife will tell you I have never walked into a room without saying "I can do that."
Although I do not bring over 20 years of swinging a hammer, renovations rarely go wrong because someone set the tile badly. They go wrong because the budget drifts and nobody catches it, because a decision sits unmade for three weeks and stalls the schedule, or because the drywaller shows up before the electrician has finished. Those are management problems, and managing complicated work is where I excel.
That is also why you will get a written update every Friday and have transparency on your budget throughout the project. It is how I have always worked, and it means you will never be surprised by what is happening in your own house.
When something goes wrong
Every renovation turns up surprises. It could be rot behind a wall, old wiring, or a vanity that gets back-ordered. When that happens on your project, you will hear from me the day I find it, along with the options as I see them. Firm pricing follows as soon as I have real numbers from the trades, and you will know when to expect it. Then you decide, with facts in hand.
Surprises found early. Options the same day.
What I am upfront about
I am newer to this trade than my license suggests. I hold an Unlimited General Contractor license in North Carolina, the highest classification the state issues, but I have been building for less time than I have been managing.
I have addressed that directly. My trade partners have decades in their crafts and reputations they guard carefully. I am investing my own money in ground-up projects alongside the project managers at an established custom home builder, so I can learn from people further along than I am. And I take a small number of projects at a time, so I am personally involved in each one.
Why I do this
For over 20 years, what I produced was a recommendation. It was good work and I was good at it, but at the end of a year there was nothing I could walk into. I left a salary I liked, with three kids at home, because I wanted to spend the rest of my career building spaces that change how a family lives in their own home.
Outside of work, I am married to my wife Alison, and we have three children: Samantha, Olivia, and Wesley. As a family we spend our time outdoors, exploring new places, playing games, and experimenting in the kitchen together.
If you are thinking about a project, I am glad to come look at it and give you an honest opinion, whether or not it turns into work for me.