I live in Sudbury with my wife Susan, our two daughters – Grace who’ll be 16 in a few weeks, and Paige who is 13, and our two cats.  When I’m not at DCF or with my family, I work at Accenture as a Managing Director in our Strategy Practice working with Communications, Media and Technology clients.

I’ve been doing CrossFit for about five years.  I got to know Rap through Sudbury Soccer when our daughters played together.  During the 2014 Hope Sudbury Telethon, I saw DCF had a one-month membership and decided to support a friend and a local business.  I walked in for an evening class that November (Filthy 50), and the rest is history.

When not traveling for work, you’ll usually find me at the 8:30 AM, 7:00 AM on Saturday, and the occasional Rise-N-Grind.

1- What keeps you coming back to CrossFit each day?
It’s the community and challenge.  It’s a great group of people that come together at DCF.  I’ve had the opportunity to drop into a lot of Boxes in different cities and know we have something special here. From the top-notch coaches to the members who show up each day, it’s a supportive, friendly, hard-working, and fun group.  I also enjoy the daily challenge CrossFit provides.  I’ve improved my fitness so much but also have so much to keep working on.  I leave the gym humbled a few times a week, and that’s good motivation for me to keep showing up.

2- Who were you in high school and do you think you’ve changed a lot since then?
I grew up in the Pittsburgh suburbs and went to an all-boys catholic high-school in the city that brought kids together from all over (think BC High or Catholic Memorial).  I was an ok athlete, good student, state debate champion and hung out with a pretty good group of guys.  I don’t think I’ve changed much and if you got my high-school buddies together I think they’d say the same.

3- What’s it like being a Steelers fan in Patriots country?
I’ll put it in CrossFit terms, it’s like doing Murph Rx, painful and feeling like it will never end.  It’s been a long 20 years living here and watching Brady & the Pats, and I’m VERY excited that their run, like all good things is about to end.  That said, it’s hard not to appreciate greatness and part of what I like about living here is the passion people have for sports, it’s almost as good as Pittsburgh!  Just remember to ask me about the Penguins two Stanley Cups in the last five years and that unfortunate Bruins Game 7 loss the next time we do this.

4- What current TV shows are you hooked on?
I can’t say I’m hooked on anything right now.  My TV viewing is mostly sports or Netflix. Shows I’ve liked on Netflix include: GIRI/HAJI (a little hokey at times), The Spy (Unbelievable true story, done very well), The Witcher (entertaining, but no one will mistake it for GOT), Thieves of the Wood (Robinhood in 18^th century Belgium) and Dogs of Berlin (German crime drama).

5- What’s your spirit animal?
Ah yes, this question.  I wasn’t sure where to go with it, so I started with some mascots from my schools and settled on the Wolverine, from my two years in graduate school at The University of Michigan.  Yes, I rooted for Tom Brady while this city was walking around in Bledsoe jerseys.  The all-knowing wikipedia describes them as stocky with short legs and I can’t argue with that comparison.  It’s also known as an animal that to borrow one of my Dad’s line “punches above its weight”, a quality I’ll take anytime.