I started working in a body shop in 1987 at age 15. I worked my way up from sweeping floors to being a painter and estimator by age 18, performing collision work and restoration work. At 19 I decided to give construction a try while continuing to fix vehicles for friends and family at night and weekends. I had always wanted to learn PDR so I quit my job in construction in 1998 and took the leap into PDR. I had a deep desire to do quality work before I worked on car lot cars, because I looked at them as a future retail car that someone was going to pay a lot of money for and I wasn’t going to do poor repairs to it. With that mind set, I started beating dents in my wife’s car that I just fixed and repainted and worked them out. Many hours of practice and frustration later I started working for some dealers making a good living while always trying to improve my skills. I mostly work for body shops and retail customers now and have repaired many hail damaged cars in recent years. I truly enjoy PDR and will continue to improve my skills, knowledge, and professional attitude so the PDR trade can benefit as a whole, and each customer has a positive experience by the way I conduct myself as a business man in this trade.
