Born in Hamilton, ON, I grew up a two-sport athlete, splitting my time between the hockey arena and baseball diamond. My hockey playing career concluded after 17 seasons, four of which were spent in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) in Jr B and Jr C, highlighted by a selection to the Great Lakes Jr C All Star team in 2010. My baseball playing career concluded after a 2008 hockey injury to my throwing shoulder, leading me to pursue umpiring more seriously. Initially starting out as a simple summer job when I was 12, working my first game as a volunteer when no umpire arrived for my younger brother’s machine-pitch game, my amateur career progressed to debuting in the Intercounty Baseball League at 20 and receiving an invitation to the Baseball Canada National Umpiring Program in 2011. After graduating from the University of Windsor in 2013 with an [H]BA in Forensic Science and Criminology, Minor in Psychology, I turned professional in 2014, hired by Minor League Baseball and initially assigned to the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League.

Eleven seasons later, I have worked over 1500 games, progressing through the Short-A New York-Penn League, Low-A Midwest League, High-A Carolina League, and Double-A Eastern League, before reaching Triple-A in 2020. Through my career, I have been privileged to have worked the League Championship at every level, including three series-deciding games as the home plate umpire, as well as two all star games. I have been a Crew Chief for four seasons (three at Triple-A), highlighted by a selection to serve as crew chief for the 2022 Triple-A playoffs and home plate umpire for the National Championship game. I worked my first Major League spring training game in 2017, and was assigned full schedules at 2023 and 2024 Major League Spring Training.

I maintain strong ties to the amateur officiating programs closest to me, serving as an umpire development advisor for the Hamilton Baseball Umpires’ Association and hold Senior Course Conductor status with Baseball Ontario, assisting with grassroots level programming and education. Upon the conclusion of my playing career, I began officiating minor hockey with the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA) and continue that to date in my off-season, additionally working in the OHA and Ontario Super Hockey League. Whether mentoring younger crew mates in professional baseball or working with a new recruit who has never picked up a mask or a whistle, my goal is to ensure everyone leaves at the end of the game taking pride in the job they have done, in a profession where we are expected to start perfect and improve from there.

I still reside in Hamilton, with my wife Carly.