I was actually born on the East Coast and I mostly grew up in a suburb of Seattle Washington until high school and I also went to school in Arizona. I also lived and worked in Midland Texas. Now, I live in Salt Lake City. I spend a lot of time snowboarding and rock climbing and basically anything outdoors. I am a big backpacker and hiker.

As a Design Engineer, I do Project Management over pipeline construction job, so my work will take me from anywhere between well head to the city line, doing the high pressure large diameter pipe. I will oversee designing the project, ordering materials, organizing construction and overseeing its completion.I don't directly use the design programs, I had CAD designers for that. I use a lot of my communication skills that’s worked with many different groups of people to get the project, draw the approvals and make sure all the environmental standards are okay. I’m very good with working with others. I also use like basic excel spreadsheet for pressure calculations.Couple summers ago, I installed about 2.5 mile pipeline about an inch in diameter in Wyoming. A lot of the time I will work on projects that are what we called meter and regulator station. We measure how much gas were falling into pressure that is a lot of stuff inside replacing and seizing the valve and that kind of fields.

What I like about my job is that I get to go out on these construction jobs and these huge projects with a large heavy equipment in the pipe actually going in. It is very cool to drive by something that I design from start to finish.For challenges that I overcame at work, I'm a Chemical Engineer by degree but my work is mostly mechanical and civil. I think the challenge is forgetting everything I learned and learning new. Every project is different, they are not repetitive, I’m always learning something brand new.