Born and raised in California, Brian started diving in early 2000 in Cozumel and was immediately hooked.  After adjusting to the colder Puget Sound waters, he started diving often, logging well over 100 dives per year.

He completed his instructor training in 2004 and began teaching in January of 2005 and has been actively teaching since, also creating and developing several of his own, agency-approved curricula.  

In 2008, he was 1 of 9 instructors, worldwide, invited to attend the first ever UTD Crossover/IDC in San Diego.  The rigorous and grueling 9, 14-hour day IDC consisted not only of being trained to be a UTD Instructor, but the 9 instructors, along with founder Andrew Georgitsis, also helped frame and create the curriculum, standards and procedures and the UTD "playbook".  

Brian has a true passion for all aspects of of diving, whether it's monkey diving with just a backplate, slung tank and a scooter, a 240' tech dive or a stage dive 2000' into a cave.  He's fortunate enough to live in an area with world class diving right in his backyard and he takes full advantage of that privilege and is very active in the local dive community.

He especially loves teaching divers to be safer, more competent and confident divers.  His dedication to his students is his first and foremost priority.  His teaching style is more of a mentoring approach...he teaches as if he's building his own team, which in many instances is the end result.  He maintains a healthy balance of fun dives and instructing and has been very active in developing a UTD community in the Pacific Northwest.

Diving has taken Brian to some exciting locations.  He's cave dived the cenotes of the Yucatan Peninsula, of which he has a particular fondness.  He's logged over 100 dives on Maui and Kauai and has dived in California and all along the coast of British Columbia and Vancouver Island and has also dived the WWII wrecks off the coast of North Carolina, including the U-352 and Papoose.