Time flies, and I've now been a practicing attorney for nearly 17 years. But some other life adventures happened before that.

I grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and attended Harvard University with the aid of a U.S. Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarship. After graduating college in 1994, I received an officer’s commission in the U.S. Navy.

I entered the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and served as a nuclear-trained submarine officer aboard two fast-attack submarines based in Connecticut and Hawaii.

I later attended the MBA program at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, receiving my MBA in Finance and Operations in 2001. I spent part of my final semester as a student at the ESADE business school in Barcelona, Spain, where I discovered my increasing interest in the legal field.

In 2006, I graduated from Harvard Law School, where I served as an editor/member of the Harvard Law Review.

I spent my first three years of law practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a finance associate at the national law firm of Foley & Lardner LLP.

In 2009, I moved to Albuquerque and joined the law firm of Miller Stratvert P.A. I primarily practiced in the areas of civil litigation and appeals, creditor representation, and utility representation. I became a director/shareholder in 2013 and departed in 2017 to open my solo practice. I say that I was "remote working before it was a thing," and now it is . . . just a thing.

I currently maintain law licenses in New Mexico (active) and New York (inactive).

I live in Albuquerque with my wife, two children, several dogs, and a calico cat who thinks she runs the place but who are we to disagree.