We moved from Apex, NC to Pittsboro, NC (about 15 miles south of Chapel Hill) in July of 2007.  We now live in a beautiful new golf course community (Chapel Ridge) so it will be easier for me to feed my golf addiction!

I am still with SAS (since 1999) and am currently a Technical Consulting Manager responsible for a team of highly skilled technical consultants who provide professional services to SAS’ customers all around the country.  I have also started a home based part time tax preparation and tax planning business assisting small businesses and individuals in need of tax related services (www.TriangleTaxMobile.com).  I’m serving as a member of the Chapel Ridge Budget and Finance Advisory Committee and the Golf Club at Chapel Ridge Member Advisory Board.  I’m also on the Board of Directors of the West Point Society of the Research Triangle and am planning to start helping out as a Military Academy Liaison Officer guiding high school students through the West Point admissions process.  I coach my daughter Ally’s softball team in the spring. 

For those of you who don’t know my wife, Dori is originally from Roebling, NJ.  She graduated from Liberty University in 1993 (ROTC) and served about five years as a MI officer.  We met while we were both stationed at Fort Belvoir, VA.  Dori currently works for a NC State Supreme Court commission. She just bought a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and is quite preoccupied with learning to ride.  Dori plays indoor soccer and loves the Pittsburgh Steelers.  She also runs, scrapbooks, paints, and enjoys photography.  During the spring, she helps me coach Ally’s softball team and spends the rest of her free time carting both girls from here to there and commuting to Raleigh. 

Abby is 14 and starting 9^th grade this year at the Woods Charter High School.  She starred as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz at her middle school last year and plans top be a part of the drama club at her new high school.  Abby enjoys riding horses, anime and manga cartooning, singing, playing the guitar and learning about the Japanese culture.  She is a volunteer with Heads Up! Equine Therapy in Pittsboro and also with Chatham County Teen Court.  She hopes to go into a nursing program after high school.

Ally is 11 and going into the 7^th grade at Horton Middle School.  She is a competitive soccer player and plays on a county team and hopes to make the school teams for softball and soccer this year.  She is also a volunteer for Chatham County Teen Court and spent much of her summer babysitting for other families in the neighborhood.  Right now, Ally’s career plans include moving to Miami and working for Horatio Cane from CSI Miami as a crime scene investigator.    

Rounding out the family are our two miniature dachshund puppies – Stretch (male) and Slinky (female).