About

I am a Commercial Pilot, Flight Instructor, and Finance Student interested in aviation, equity investing, and entrepreneurship. I grew up in Minnesota, and attend the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, where I'm earning a degree in Commercial Aviation and another in Managerial Finance & Accounting. 

I've always been attracted to activities which reveal hidden value. As a child, I wanted to become a treasure hunter. I spent hours swinging metal detectors around local parks and lakes hoping to unearth something worthwhile. On a few occasions, I've been hired to find lost rings for both friends and strangers. Eventually, this appetite for treasure led to coin collecting. Through the years, I've sorted through millions of coins, purchased and sold collections, and ran a profitable YouTube channel educating and entertaining viewers through numismatics.

High school was when I found a new interest in aviation. As a first generation pilot, I was allured by the ability to move people across the globe in a time span quicker than ever thought possible. I am excited to know that one day, I will be the operator enabling people to reach new job markets, start lives together, and visit their loved ones. 

I logged my first hour of flight training during high school, which I later found out was my instructors first hour of dual given. Around the same time, I was influenced by my older brother to begin studying the stock market, and that is a game I've now been playing for the past four years as well. 

In college, I've spent three years supporting the fundamentals of building experience in the aircraft, in the stock market, and broadening my horizons overall. 

Steve Jobs is quoted for having said ''You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards''. Life takes countless turns, and we can never expect to successfully forecast the future. All we can do is place the forks in the road and march forward. In my philosophy, it is important to open every door for future opportunities. I use this to make calculated decisions which will give me 'the widest map of dots' so to speak.

A mentor of mine often said 'ready, fire', rather than 'ready, aim, aim, aim,'. His lesson was to be quick with action, and less critical about planning. Running a mile each day will prepare you for a marathon better than reading about marathons for a month.

I agree with Jobs that we should map out as many dots as possible, and also with that mentor who said we should be quick to action. The questions left to ask are "What dots should I make? How quickly can I fire at them? How critical is a misstep? Can it be undone?".

In action, I use these thought processes to open as many avenues as I can for the future. Whatever hat I'm wearing - pilot, finance, or business, my goal is to develop breadth and depth in everything I do.

My long-term goal is to build a career at the center of aviation, finance, and entrepreneurship. While flying, investing, and managing business operations, I'm driven by my desire to make the complicated simple, master the complex, and tackle the problems worth solving.