I was born in 1985 in Los Angeles, California. I attended high school in Nephi, Utah, and started college at Brigham Young University (BYU) in September 2003, studying Physics. In August of 2004, I served a two-year term of service as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Italy Rome mission. I started school again in January 2007, and met my future wife for the first time that same month (we worked evening custodial together). We were married in May 2008 and have had fun together ever since.

I graduated from Brigham Young University with a BS in Applied Physics in April 2010. I immediately started an internship at Los Alamos National Laboratories that lasted most of the summer. After returning, I started grad school at BYU in September of 2010. I graduated with my Physics MS from BYU in June 2012. I then completed an internship at the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), located in La Spezia, Italy.

At its conclusion, I began my doctoral studies in Acoustics at The Pennsylvania State University. In January of 2013 I began working on my PhD project investigating the physics behind the formation of underwater bubble clouds due to underwater explosions. I defended my dissertation in June 2016 and graduated the following August.

I presently work at Labcyte (now Beckman Coulter Life Sciences) as an Ultrasound Systems Engineer. We manufacture an instrument that uses high-intensity focused ultrasound to transfer minute quantities of liquids. These instruments are used in drug discovery, synthetic biology, and other life sciences research (including work on SARS-COV-2 research and testing).