Bio

Though I have been a musician as long as I can remember, I began my career in music production accidentally. At the age of 19, my band and I entered a recording studio in Allston, Massachusetts. In order to subsidize the recording, I took a job as an intern in the studio. Vacuuming led to cleaning the tape machine, which in turn led to assisting on sessions, and finally a few solo sessions on the overnight shift. Pretty soon, I was hooked.

After graduating from Bates College with a degree in psychology, I relocated to Portland, Maine, and soon became an assistant at a larger 24-track analog studio. Once again, assisting on sessions led to running my own sessions, and local critical acclaim led to record deals for artists like Rustic Overtones and 6gig.

Riding the wave of these early successes, I moved to Brooklyn, New York, and was quickly working as an engineer on major label records, honing my ProTools chops and being the de facto "rock guy" on pop records. Between gigs, I drove back up to Portland to produce indie rock records. After doing this commute for a while, the rewards and the excitement of producing independent records outweighed the benefits of the big city, and after a little over two years in Brooklyn, I headed back to Portland to focus on making the records that the artists wanted to make.

Now, almost a decade after leaving New York, I continue to make records with an independent spirit and within budgets that belie the sound coming out of the speakers. Records that hang with the "big guns" despite their meager means, but more importantly, records made on the artists' terms.