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Deaf since birth, I communicate through American Sign Language and written English. I am a native of Port Huron, Michigan and attended school there from kindergarten to the tenth grade. For my junior and senior years of high school, I went to a high school in Washington, DC called Model Secondary School for the Deaf which is open to Deaf students from all over the country. I made a lot of new friends there and got to see all the richness of history and cosmopolitan life that Washington, DC has to offer.

I am a 1999 graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY with a Bachelor's degree in Finance. After an array of business experiences including working at a failed software startup and trying my hand at Internet marketing, I joined Port Huron-based CF Bancorp in late 2004. I spent over five years there and worked in a variety of areas including Marketing and Lending Operations and Retail Banking. CF Bancorp was shut down by the FDIC in April 2010 and its assets were acquired by Talmer Bank and Trust (then called First Michigan Bank). Shortly after that, I joined the Talmer team and am currently working in its Wealth Management department.

In my spare time, I enjoy watching boats go by and going to the beach (Port Huron is on the mouth of Lake Huron), watching movies, following Detroit pro and University of Michigan sports teams, and surfing TrekEarth to see the whole wide world right at my fingertips.