About Me

While I attended college at the University of Colorado at Boulder studying business, I was employed as a manager of a small limousine company located Broomfield, Colorado from 1990 to 1992.  My duties included scheduling or performing maintenance on the cars (there were four of them), updating liquor licenses and other regulatory compliance, hiring and training drivers, and driving as a chauffeur for charters I selected to drive.

 

Following college, from 1992 to 1995, I lived in Los Angeles and worked in motion picture production for companies like Disney, Avnet/Kerner, Columbia Pictures, Sony Entertainment, Saban Entertainment, and Music Television (MTV).  During those years I worked in various capacities of filmmaking, including as a general production or key production assistant, second assistant director, second unit director, props, locations, special effects, and in three movies as a stuntman.  In one film I was a stunt driver in a scene where I struck a stuntwoman running through a small-town intersection at night.

 

There is no technical college or university one can attend, nor a degree one can obtain regarding stunt work in film.  It is entirely practice, planning, and trial-and-error.  I spent many hours honing my skills with different vehicles practicing with other stunt personnel at an abandoned airport in North Hollywood.  We drove on the runways to practice u-skids, power skids, sliding skid turns, near-crash timing, and jumps.

 

I received an unsolicited email in late 2018 from a rideshare company inquiring whether I would be interested in driving for them.  At that time, I considered that I have no criminal record, I am healthy enough to pass a driver’s physical examination, and I have not received a moving traffic violation since 1995.  I decided to put my driving skills to work again.  I applied as a rideshare driver, passed my background and physical examination, and began rideshare driving in February 2019.

 

I do not rideshare drive regularly—perhaps 4-6 hours each week, and usually only on Friday nights.  However, I have experience driving in all hours, the morning rush, airport runs, and following heavy snowstorms when most rideshare vehicles are not able to drive (I drive a 4WD Chevrolet Suburban).

 

Driving for a rideshare company has been a personal success for me: with over 2,300 trips and a current rider score of 4.98/5.0, I am one of the top-rated drivers in the U.S.  While the riders’ enjoyment of their trip is important to me, the safety of my riders and traveling public are always my first concern when I drive.