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WHAT IS YOUR POSITION WITHIN YOUR COMPANY? I am service department director and part owner of American Roofing & Metal Co. Inc., Louisville, Ky.

WHAT IS THE MOST UNUSUAL PROJECT OF WHICH YOU HAVE BEEN A PART? Installing an EPDM roof system on a large steamboat named the Belle of Louisville

WHY DID YOU BECOME INVOLVED IN THE ROOFING INDUSTRY? I am a fourth-generation roofing professional, so roofing is in my blood. My great-grandfather moved to the U.S. from Germany in 1914, and our family has worked in the roofing industry ever since.

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST ROOFING EXPERIENCE? Watching my grandpa and dad solder in our workshop when I was 4 years old

WHAT IS YOUR ROOFING INDUSTRY INVOLVEMENT? I currently am enrolled in NRCA University’s Future Executives Institute—Class 10. I also stay up to date with new roof systems and products.

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST JOB? Cleaning up the yard at the office when I was in middle school

PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED TO KNOW ... I smashed both of my thumbs in our metal fabrication brake when I was in high school.

WHAT QUALITY DO YOU MOST ADMIRE IN A PERSON? Honesty

IF YOU COULD TRAVEL ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, WHERE WOULD YOU GO? WHY? I would like to go to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. I admire and am fascinated with that part of the world and those countries’ architecture, culture and geography.

WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER A WASTE OF TIME? Having a big birthday celebration for a 1-year-old (I have three kids so it’s not that I don’t like kids.)

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FOOD? Meat

WHAT’S THE MOST EXCITING/ADVENTUROUS THING YOU’VE DONE? Sailing in the British Virgin Islands for eight days of island hopping, fishing, scuba diving and exploring

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE STRESS RELIEVERS? Being in nature with no electronics

WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD, WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GREW UP? A music producer

BIG CITY OR SMALL TOWN? Outside the city with land

WHAT SONG ARE YOU LISTENING TO OVER AND OVER? Any Dirty Heads song

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ROOFING MATERIAL TO WORK WITH? WHY? Copper because it takes great skill and craftsmanship to make it functional

WHAT IS THE MOST HIGH-TECH ITEM IN YOUR HOUSE? My TV or computer

IF YOU COULD MEET ANY HISTORICAL FIGURE, WHOM WOULD YOU MEET? WHY? The pharaohs who built the pyramids so I could ask how they did it

WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER YOUR MOST REWARDING EXPERIENCE? Having children

MY FAVORITE PART ABOUT WORKING IN THE ROOFING INDUSTRY IS ... Being able to affect peoples’ lives in a real and positive way by protecting their homes and businesses