I moved here ten years ago and never left. My wife and I got engaged at the lake and married there. Our five kids go to school here. I run technology for a large Orange County law firm, which means I read budgets and contracts for a living. I would like to do that for this city.
Filing as
Technology Executive
In RSM since 2016. Married at the lake. Five kids in local schools.
“I read the budget.
You should see what’s in it.”
CTO of a large Orange County law firm
Pop Warner coach, three seasons with Santa Margarita
San Francisco Solano parish, active member
Reform CrossFit RSM, weekends walking the lake
Now it’s our turn.
The generation that built this city left us something worth building on. I’m running to represent the young families of Rancho Santa Margarita — roughly one in three households here has a child under 18 at home. I’m one of them. Five kids, all in local schools. What the council decides, my family lives in.
What I will work on
Common-sense spending
Every line of the budget should answer one question: does this actually help RSM families? Ask the tough questions, cut the red tape, and stop funding things that sound good in a press release.
Youth and family programs
Fund the spaces families actually use. Youth sports, school partnerships, and real programs for kids instead of buildings that sit empty.
A city with room in it
Grow the city, and make more room for the people who want to live here. Time to remove the stops.
Parks, trails and the lake
The lake and the trails are the city’s living room. Maintain them like we mean it, before deferred maintenance becomes a bond measure.
Straight answers from City Hall
Every seat on this ballot is open. What I want to change is not one vote, it is whether a resident who emails the city gets a real answer from someone who read the question.
Rising insurance costs
Costs are rising and insurance is one of them — premiums up, and some neighbors not renewed at all. This is one a city can actually help with, and that is what I plan to do.
What I will fight for
Costs are rising. Start there.
- After-school care a working parent can count on. The Bell Tower runs camps and youth programs today. What ended in 2025 was the full-time after-school provider that had been there thirteen years. For a parent working until six, that is the gap that matters, and I want a long-term partner back in that building.
- Ask what it actually cost. The Antonio Parkway gateway monument was estimated at $2.1 million and finished at $2,835,878. That is about $736,000 over, and no one had to explain the difference in public. Reading contracts is my job. I want that same question asked of every line.
Am I in your district?
District 2
District 2 is the central band of the city, running southwest to northeast: Ave De Las Flores, Alma Aldea, Ave Empresa and Ave De Las Banderas. Only District 2 voters can vote in this race.
Boundaries are the City of Rancho Santa Margarita’s own adopted council district map, Ordinance 23-02. What a picture cannot do is resolve a single address, so to confirm your district and registration, check with the City Clerk’s office or the Orange County Registrar of Voters at ocvote.gov.