1) What interested you in cars at such a young age?
My family members always showed an interest, and at a young age it stuck to me, and everything about them would just catch my attention.​

2) As a teenager how much time did you spend working on cars?
Well you’d think a regular kid would like to spend his weekend playing sports or video-games but I’d rather be at the shop with my father. So I would spend more time than you could probably imagine.​

3) Do your skills help you in your everyday life?
To a certain extent they do, they allow me to look at problems differently .​

4) What inspires you to do what you do?
Well I’ve been interested in this since I was young, and now I can actually make a living from what I like to do.

5) What advice would you give to teenagers who would like to pursue a similar career?
If you like what you do there’s no reason why you shouldn’t pursue it later in life.  So, I would tell them to just keep learning everyday and finish school. Your skills can always be enhanced, to this day I still learn things I didn’t know before.​

6) What is the hardest thing to repair on a car? Why?
In my opinion it would be the transmission, there’s just so many components that come together to make it function. Being one of the most important parts on a car, you must have patience to make sure your work is done well.​

7) Do you like to work on smaller sized vehicles rather than bigger sized vehicles?
Its all the same, although having more arm space under the hood is sometimes a bit more comfortable.  But, in the end, the work is the same. At times, it is a bit hard working on big trucks, but I really don’t have a preference.​

8) What challenges do you face in your day-to-day life?
You’d think I’d face a lot, but as a mechanic I may have to face the occasional rude customer, but other than that everything goes pretty smooth.​

9) Could you see yourself in any other profession?
I’ve thought about changing my line of work at times, but when I really think about it, cars are my life. It would be like changing a lifestyle from one day to the next- it’s not something you’d want to do.​

10) Do you see yourself doing this for the rest of your life?

Yes, it just feels right to me. It’s something I want to do when I wake up in the morning. I want to show my kids what I have learned, and pass on to them what my father taught me.  It’s a family thing and that’s why I respect it..