Howdy, folks!
I'm Chris. I’m an airline First Officer based in Los Angeles, California.
I grew up in sunny Southern California. In 2013, just out of high school, I became a licensed pilot and moved to Indiana to attend Purdue University. I remained there, building flight experience, until 2018 when I made the short move to Dayton, Ohio to begin my airline career with PSA Airlines. In 2020, refusing to endure one more winter in the Midwest, I fled south to North Carolina. A year later, I completed the upgrade process to officially become a Captain. A year after that, a Line Check Airman. While at PSA I led the mentorship programs for both Cadets and Direct-Entry Captains.
After 7 fulfilling years at PSA, I switched over to a mainline carrier in 2025, and after a few short months of training became an LAX-based First Officer in the Airbus A320 family of aircraft. As of June 2026, I'm proud to be able to say that I'm once again a resident of California.
Spending time in cities (large and small) all around America — especially during the Coronavirus pandemic — led me to become deeply interested in how we design our built environment, as well as how we each play a role in cultivating a community worth living in. I'm now an active participant in the award-winning Charlotte Urbanists organization. In August 2023, I was honored to be a panelist in a Strong Towns Crash Analysis Studio analyzing a crash in the Charlotte area.
I've started several aspirational blogs over the years, all of which have been lost to the sands of time. But I realize the importance of having a home on the web for my writing, both as an exercise of self-reflection and as a channel for my friends and family to keep up-to-date. As such, I've created one more blog — which I call my archive — that I hope will prove to be a lasting record of my life. It's also where I share what I'm doing today.
In my free time, I like to go on walks, hikes, and bike rides, during which I'll carry my camera and practice photography. As of 2020, I've proudly shot exclusively on Leica equipment.