Jeff grew up on the northern California coast on a ranch north of a small logging town known as Fort Bragg.  Many of his family members worked as loggers in the redwood forests of the area.  Jeff attended schools in both Fort Bragg and later in Santa Rosa.  While in high school, he traveled to Germany as a foreign exchange student.  Following his graduation, he once again traveled back to Germany where he would live for another six months, eventually returning to attend college.  Jeff attended three years of college where his main emphasis was in water quality assessment.  During that time, he was also doing both pre-cast and flat-work concrete construction.  After he finished his third year of college, he met his wife Debbie, from the Portland area, and promptly moved to northwestern Oregon. 
 

Jeff worked at various odd jobs including cabinet making and truck driving.  He then became employed in the water industry.  There he built, installed, and operated and maintained commercial, industrial, and public water systems.  He obtained his water treatment certification in the mid 80’s.  A request to help start up a bottled water facility later lead to his employment as the plant manager for a bottled water company in Portland, now known as Sierra Springs.  Always looking for more challenges, he went to work for US Filter operating an Ultra-Pure water treatment plant serving the Semi-Conductor Industry.  His big break came when he would leave the private industry and become employed with the Oregon Association of Water Utilities where he is employed to the present as a Circuit Rider.  Jeff travels with his truck and camper throughout the state of Oregon assisting water systems.  His greatest joy is to help others through education and technical assistance.
 

Jeff has a beautiful wife of 30 years, a son and daughter in their mid 20’s, and 4 perfect grandchildren.  There is no end to the non-work related activities that Jeff enjoys.  Fishing, hunting, and landscaping are year-round gratification.  To get further away, Jeff and his wife enjoy backpacking in the high country of the northwest.  When that isn’t quite far enough away, Jeff and his wife enjoy trips around the world to places such as the South Pacific and Europe.  Future plans are to travel to the Far East, Africa, and South America.