Background Picture Above: I captured a little bit of California’s beautiful landscape during a brief trip to Sonoma a few years ago. Growing up in a small town in Connecticut, I am amazed at the varying terrain across different parts of California…and that is after living in the Los Angeles area for 20 years! The photo reminds me of my farming hometown in CT that fills my mind with wonderful memories of friends and family. Education: Between 1995 and 1999, I spent most of my time at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts fulfilling a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. After a yearlong stop in Miami, Florida for a fire protection internship, I left the beaches of South Florida in 2001 and returned to New England in the middle of winter to complete my M.S. in Fire Protection Engineering. A pull to return to a beach climate or a push from early morning ice scraping and snow shoveling led me to Southern California. Although originally intending just a short stay, that was almost 20 years ago and Southern California has a strong hold of me now.Professional Career: CCI is a leader in fire/life safety consultation, accessibility consultation, fire alarm design, fire sprinkler design and ICT (information, communications & technology) design services.Our mission is to advance CCI as the industry expert in design and construction by investing in exceptional people.Our core values are being experts, responsive, developing solutions, and our talent.Our Los Angeles, St. Louis, and New York offices provide services throughout the United States and internationally. We believe in the one firm concept within and among our offices, and being expertise driven more than geographically driven. It is more important to have the right people on a project than local people on a project. Our one firm approach allows us to maintain a consistent level of professional quality, technology, and expertise.CCI…Experts Responsive Solutionswww.codeconsultants.comPersonal Expertise: CCI's Code Consultation Group develops Fire Protection concepts used in the design of construction projects for both new and existing buildings. I specialize in code consultation for numerous market sectors including corporate, higher education, mixed use, large assembly venues, and retail. I consider myself very fortunate to lead a group of talented professionals solving high profile architectural challenges across California and the West Coast.