After renting on the south side and in the highlands for several years, my parents bought their first home on Seminole Ave in Ward 3. As a lifelong resident, I attended Plympton, MacArthur, Kennedy Middle School, and graduated from Waltham High in 1992 and Purdue University in 1996. My wife Kristie is the library teacher at Whittemore Elementary School, and we rented a small apartment on the south side and scraped and saved to buy a fixer upper in Waltham. Using eighteen years' worth of sweat equity, we bought our forever home in 2020. We have been Waltham homeowners and taxpayers since 2002.

Our son Billy graduated from Waltham High in 2022 and is a junior at UNH studying finance and business. Our son Michael graduated from Waltham High in 2024 and is a freshman at UMass Amherst studying to be a teacher, following in his mother's and grandmother's footsteps. Kristie's mother lives with us and now calls Waltham home. My parents, grandmothers, my brother and sister and their families and many aunts, uncles and cousins all chose Waltham as their home. Many in Ward 3.

Waltham is a great city to live, work and play. We have an enviable balance of high property values and city services combined with the lowest tax rates in the area. I have always worked to improve our city and quality of life, whether it be coaching or organizing youth sports, fundraising, organizing parades, volunteering on non-profit boards or selection committees. Mayor McCarthy appointed me to serve on the board of health in 2006 and I left that position after being elected to the city council in 2023. I was also appointed by the Mayor as the School Building Committee Community Liaison in 2020. I value education and the family life that can be had in Waltham if you go after it.

I love Waltham and all the opportunity it has to offer. I want to continue to stand up for our neighborhoods with an active, forward-thinking voice. The character of single-family neighborhoods are being infringed upon at the state level and local issues matter. Family values matter. I am an experienced community leader with no debts to special interest groups and I have no conflicts of interest that prevent me from continuing to be your city councillor.

Resume & Community Involvement

Education

• Waltham High School, Class of 1992

• Purdue University, Class of 1996                              

Employer

• Mass General Brigham (formerly Partners Healthcare) - IT Manager. I manage and lead a team of analysts and software developers developing tools to improve population health and value-based care at the largest healthcare provider in Massachusetts.

Community Involvement & Volunteer Work

• Waltham City Councillor, Ward 3, January 2024 to present (elected November 2, 2023).

  • • 2025 Committee Assignments: Veterans Services, Ordinances and Rules, Licenses and Franchises, Kevin M. Ritcey Award, Police/Fire/DPW Building Committee.

    • 2024 Committee Assignments: Veterans Services, Finance, Licenses and Franchises, Cable Access.

• City of Waltham Board of Health, 2006-2023

• Board Member, Waltham Education and Beyond Foundation

• Board Member and Secretary, Waltham Museum

• Vice President, Waltham Lions Club

• Past President and Board Member, Waltham Youth Baseball, 2012-21

• Past President and Board Member, Waltham Gridiron Foundation, 2019-22

• Member, Waltham Land Trust

• Member, Waltham Triad Lodge

• Community and Neighborhood Liaison to Waltham School Building Committee, 2020-21

• Treasurer, Waltham 135th Anniversary Parade Committee, 2019

• Waltham High School Principal Screening Committee 2018-19

• Waltham High School Associate Principal Screening Committee, 2019

• Waltham High School Class of 2022 Parent Advisory Board

• Former Member, Waltham Schools Technology Advisory Council

• Former Coach, Kennedy Middle School Baseball

• Former Coach, Waltham YBA Basketball

• Former Coach, Waltham Youth Soccer

• Former Coach, Waltham Police Athletic League Basketball

• Founder, Watching Waltham Podcast