I didn't start out in insurance. Before I sat across the table from families talking about coverage, I sat in meetings at Ford talking about tolerances, failure points and systems that had to work the first time. That engineering mindset never left me — I still approach a policy the same way I approached a design spec: understand exactly what it needs to do before you commit to a solution.
What pulled me into insurance was simpler than a career plan. I kept watching people in my own community — new immigrants, young families, small business owners — get sold policies they didn't understand, from advisors they only heard from once. I wanted to build something different: a practice where clients actually understand their coverage, and where I'm still the one they call five years later.
That's the version of this business I've built. Independent, so I'm not limited to one company's shelf. Explained plainly, so you're deciding with full information, not a sales pitch. And long-term, because a policy is only useful if it's still the right fit when your life changes.