I work in real estate investment because I enjoy moving ideas into the bricks-and-mortar of the real world. I have spent my career engaged in different stages of this process: studying design; swinging a hammer; methodically lining up the dollars and people to make a transaction happen. Prior to joining Falcon Ridge Partners, I worked as a research analyst and sales/leasing agent at BT Commercial in the San Francisco Bay Area and most recently as a project manager at CPM Development in Minneapolis.   Outside of work, I love biking (with or without two kids in a Burley behind me), baseball, and building stuff. Seven years on the production side of the wine business also left me with a soft spot for Grenache and the California hills. I currently live in Minneapolis with my wife and two young daughters, and I have recently become one of those weirdos who gets up at the crack of dawn to go work out in a CrossFit gym.