Why did you come to this planet?
I came here to build cool shit. And building cool shit keeps me motivated and makes me happy.

What qualifies as cool shit?
Building memories, building friendships, building love, and building things that other people can’t comprehend being able to make with their hands. I want to help people see past the black and white, the daily groove that they get stuck in, passing by and missing so many fun and exciting things that make us who we are and shape our lives. We aren’t little robots just roaming around the landscape. Burning Man is a great venue for getting to build this kind of stuff, but I want to build it everywhere.

I’ve built, worked on, and maintained almost every class of project brought to Burning Man. I fabricated, transported, and installed “Koro Loko” with Emily Nicolosi in 2019, that same year supported the Cloud Car for Sean Mann with on-playa wrenching, and was key to the setup, teardown, and management of the Pink Spot theme camp. I was build lead for the Coontie Pod 2014 Utah entry into the Souk at Burning Man and also a much larger version for the Element 11 regional that we later took to the Das Energi festival. I was build foreman and on-playa construction supervisor for the Psychedelicate Arch, Utah’s entry for Burning Man’s Circle of Regional Effigies in 2013 and was on Man Crew on playa that year also. I’ve been attending Burning Man since 2009.

Building is my life. In 2016 I started Dreambuilt Homes General Contracting. I’m the owner-operator, problem solver, and delegator-in-charge. Building inspiration—this is the concept behind Dreambuilt. It’s creating dream spaces for people, which is what I love. I have extensive hands-on experience with structural carpentry, structural and decorative metalwork, tile, concrete and more, and I use these skills daily. Metalwork is what I love best, and it’s even better if it’s both structural and fun to look at. I fabricated steel parts for the Seattle Space Needle renovation that wrapped up in 2019, and designed and built a 30,000 square foot mezzanine for the MedQuest Pharmacy building in North Salt Lake in 2018.

I established Deviant Offroad, my specialty automotive redesign shop, in 2009. We do chassis and suspension redesign and fabrication, everything from new axles and hydraulic steering to putting in all new pivot points. I used to race—in 2017 we took 4th place in class in the Baja 1000 in a car I redesigned and rebuilt. Now I go rock crawling. I love the combo of getting out into the wilderness and solving three dimensional problems with a piece of machinery I made, machinery that came through my mind and my hands.