Our People

Mike's the head of the timber frame shop. In addition to his feline sense of balance (he'll be the guy walking nonchalantly along the ridge beam on raising day), Mike has an uncanny ability to think in 3D & can come up with a solution before anyone else has an inkling that there's a problem. Mike built the home he shares with his wife & children and when free of family obligations, can be found at one end of a fishing pole in the summer and attached to a bowstring during October.

As well as being a long-serving timber framer, Marc comes from a long line of master masons. He has the patience that comes with having a grown up daughter, two young children and grandchildren.

Mike's love of things old school and quirky is a thread that runs through his day to day life. From his choice of tools to his vehicles — his car has its engine backwards he's got a kick starter & points on the bike — he's not afraid to take a stand against the vagaries of fashion.

The only member of the shop with a log-home building background and a Mr. Clean hairdo. Jake's steady hand, and carving skill is the force behind all of our timber engravings. He's also a pro at found form and putting the finishing touches on our mortise and tenon joints. When he's not swooning over his wife and daughter, he and his dog Stewie often find themselves at the dry end of a fishing pole.

Paul came to the timber frame shop by way of our construction group and is now all grown up with lovely wife Jolene, three young boys (all under the age of 5!), and a 19th century timber frame farmhouse that he's whipped into shape for them all to nest in.

Tim recently finished his own timber frame home just down the road from the site of our tree house workshop. Tim and his wife,  Karen spend most of their time enjoying their two boys, but when time allows, he's back to work on his kayaks.

Andy's a bit of an enigma - a quiet guy with a tough work ethic. This may be part of his personality or it just may be the Alfred post-collegiate haze. Either way, his composed nature makes him a great hunter — which is what occupies most of his fall weekend mornings.

Will has always had a love of furniture and has refinished a good number of pieces on his own (cherry is his preferred medium). His love of wood led him to us. When he's not working on timbers and frames, you can find him on his snowboard shredding or kickin' it on the soccer field.

Darren moved from the West Coast to the East Coast a few years back and found his place in our engineering department. Eventually the lure of the West was too strong and he soon found his way to Washington and then to Oregon where he lends his talents as our West Coast timber frame shop manager. Quick to smile with a contagious laugh, he enjoys all things outdoors and provides fierce competition to his fellow racquetball enthusiast co-workers.

Dave only sat still long enough for this photo and to tell us he's enjoying the switch from construction to timber framing. Once we catch him again, we'll share a snippit of his world.

Justin was an independent contractor before he joined the timber frame shop in McMinnville and he's one of those well-rounded individuals who can run a track hoe and install trim on the same day. He comes from a family of cowboys and if you put a rope in his hand, he'll have you hog tied in blink of an eye. He and wife Heather are currently renovating a home in the Willamette Valley where their young son and daughter are growing up fast.

Andy has a well rounded outlook that stems from his past adventures as a traveler who enjoyed long stops in New Zeland, Fuji, and Australia. Throughout his moves Andy retained a love for woodworking. Returning to his hometown just ten minutes from our Farmington NY shop, Andy found us and a passion for timberframing. These days his travel is continental and his down time is filled with anything outdoors – skiing, camping, hiking, swimming. Andy is the only person we’ve ever met that does Poi, specifically the type of modern Poi twirling, specializing in fire spinning. Very cool, or hot, depending on your point       of view.

After living in both California and Texas, Corey saw the delights of Oregon and decided to make it his home. A previous career as a graphic designer and copywriter was shelved in favor of of the craft and challenge of timber framing. He lives in north Portland, where he's in easy reach of the some of the best hiking trails the Northwest has to offer.

Joining us after attending Cornell & years specializing in ecclesiastical architecture at a Rochester architectural firm - Ty made himself at home in the loft next to our engineers. He & wife Kellie are parents of young boys Seth, Elijah, and Nahum. A few other things about Ty - he's dedicated to the NY Giants, he has a love for cycling & keeps a busy social schedule with his family [who also happen to be his neighbors.]

Another RIT graduate - Eric went straight from school to being a mechanical engineer for an aerospace company and then to his desk upstairs. He's been trying out his wings as father, as he & Heather are proud parents of a baby boy.  We're not sure, but we doubt fatherhood will slow him down on snowy mountains on his skis or on the muddy inclines on his mountain bike...

When in his creative mode this VIP is head of the architectural team. We send Jonathan to meet with clients who are in the designing stages of their dream home process because his acute sense of room transition and home design panache are matched only by his subtle wit and crazy reading glasses.

Jonathan keeps a personal blog about his journey. Check it out.

John surfaced from years designing trade show booths and now he's part of our architecture department. A sculptor at heart, John spends a great deal of his free time in the art world exhibiting his work in regional & national shows. And then there are the times when he's simply away from it all - just him & wife Jamelle, daughters Alison & Heather, their dog Luca and his kayak.

Maxine is our west coast interior designer and chooser of color, texture, shape and form. Although you can sometimes find her in clients' projects or scouting Portland, OR showrooms, you'll have better luck tracking her down if you first look for her son Jake. Maxine will be the woman about four paces behind him with arms outstretched.

Tanya spent her formative years in Bismarck, ND., so Rochester seems like the Caribbean in comparison. She splits her time at NEW between interior & architectural design which is a pretty good fit, seeing as how her academic work focused on the interplay between human consciousness and architecture. She enjoys Scrabble, exploring the culinary traditions of India, running & keeping in touch with her five siblings.

Mike left our design-loft a few years back for the sugary forests of Vermont to act as our New England Representative. The move's been refreshing and he’s found a whole new set of challenging hills for his long distance cycling habit. He & Jen manage to squeeze in a bit of personal travel once in a while but they're starting to settle now that they have daughter, Ava. We expect she'll soon learn the finer points of trail running & snowshoeing.

Call or email Mike directly: 802-310-3546

Dave's been with us for a few years now and he was accepted easily by the timber framers as he rides a motorcycle & a '68 ford pickup. He and Jen were married in a museum, (no kidding!), he's working on fixing up their house and adjusting to parenthood with new baby boy, Carter. An RIT grad, he comes from a family of farming engineers and he swapped designing tractor trailers for timber frames.

An integral member of our engineer group, Dave brings his smile and enthusiasm to every project. A native of Syracuse with degrees from both SUNY ESF and SU, we’re working hard to make him love his new home city of Rochester. Between skiing, golfing, kayaking, competitive rifle shooting and brewing beer, Dave spends time with his wife Molly.

Michael Hahn works in our design department out west, laboring away to draw 3D images of timber frames, volume structures of homes and even rain water harvesting systems including the one at The Vermont Street project. He’s a graduate of the University of Oregon’s architectural program and has worked with some of Portland’s premium names in architecture. He’s also willing to jump in on whatever needs to get done around here including mixing plaster, carrying concrete blocks and delivering flooring.

A native of Upstate NY, Serge left the area for a while to design mountain homes in California but boomeranged back a few years ago. Now that he’s in NY to stay, he’s putting his architectural and design skills to work for our East Coast clients. If you live in the area, you're likely to find "Serge & Friends" pickin' and singin' rock/folk/blue grass tunes at a variety of venues around town.

Coming to us from Colorado, Sean began work in our timber frame shop for hands-on training. Now he’s uses his Architectural Engineering degree and practical application skills in our engineering group. Sean is an avid rock climber and snowboarder (more so while he lived out west) and he's also taken up biking. There is a soft side to Sean made evident by his pet pal: Coco, a fluffy Lionhead rabbit.

Mike, a Cape Cod native, attended the University of New Hampshire where he received a Civil Engineering degree. After a handful of years as a project and construction manager for wastewater treatment plants, Mike, his wife Kara, and their daughter Sophia found their way to Upstate NY where Mike discovered a passion for timber frame engineering. When he's not pushing himself to the extreme in an Ironman, he's skiing or hiking with the family dog, Bean.  

Rob's the leader of the NEWwoodworks crew and has been with us for 15 years. [Ask him about the tiny office he used to share with PMW's Michele when we were first starting out in Shortsville. Oh, those were the days!] When his wife Stephanie can pry him away from the new cabinetry shop, you'll find Rob, Stephanie, and their daredevil son hanging out in the woods of Ithaca and the shores of Cayuga Lake.

Master of the ski slopes - on a crisp winter day he's riding the snowy white hills of Colorado...if not for real then in his day dreams. Mark used to belong to the life-of-the-law but this former lawyer decided to find an easier-going life with us as a woodworker. And may we say we're happy he found us.

The NEWwoodworks bunch acquired Rick from the New Energy Works engineering group because they needed a Sensei who would teach them the finer art of beard-growing. In his free-time from the facial hair conversations Rick's part of the team that designs & drafts the bespoke cabinetry & other bits of the woodworking shop. He's a vintage race car buff, summer resident of the Adirondack Mountains, and company Santa at Christmas.

Bill has the distinction of having employee #010, which makes him the 10th employee New Energy Works hired way back in 1986. Pretty darn cool. A fan of world music, literature and microbreweries, Bill spends his free time with his wife Charlotte, helping her run the Summerbeam bookstore and working on their house.

A quiet man of few words. In fact, this was about all we could muster Charlie to tell us about himself:

He has 29 years cabinet making experience, 3 children, and for a hobby he does woodturning. He volunteers as an ambulance EMT-CC & his cell phone plays Die Valkure.

With Desiree, his little girl at home, and having just gotten married Jay is busy being a parent and husband, which occupies most of his free time - but in the off chance he gets a respite, you can find him camping, hiking, and doing all of those other outdoors-y type things.

With his lovely wife, two girls and one son, Sam ventured across the US from Wyoming to settle in upstate New York. The variety and challenges at NWW keep him on his toes during the day while his kids keep him running at night. Sam previously owned and ran his own furniture shop and still enjoys making custom pieces in his spare time.

Gediminas is a transplant to American from Lithuania. He, his wife and daughter continue to celebrate anniversaries here in the great USofA. Though he still has a daughter & other family back in Lithuania whom he misses very much - he believes he's here to stay. You'll find Gediminas and his family enjoying the outdoors during the weekends.

Hans is the finishing guru on our fine woodworking team. His final touches create the super smooth surfaces on all of our hand crafted pieces. Hans enjoys several sports with his two sons – snowboarding, cross-country skiing, white water rafting, canoeing – they are currently working on building their third canoe. One of a number of musicians in our midst, Hans enjoys playing the mountain dulcimer and mandolin.

Good employees sometimes venture off to explore different opportunities, very often they come back. As is the case with Daniel, now on his second tour with NEWwoodworks. He and his wife, and two dogs make camping, hiking and skeet shooting high priorities. Though he's considering adding a mini-donkey to the clan possibly to compliment his hobby as a Republican propagandist. We can't help but wonder if it's because he couldn't find a mini-elephant?

A native of Argentina, Enrique joined us with an interesting background in stair, chair, and other custom furniture making for large ships and yachts. Skills that not only come in handy at the shop, but in restoring his home. Though these days he and his wife spend most of their time with their latest addition, baby Joaquin.

Dan is a wiz with both wood and metal. His creativity in combining the mediums has resulted in numerous must-have pieces. In his spare time Dan dotes on his wife Alissa and their sons Miles and Levi. While Dan spends as much time as possible with his little boys, he and Alissa have kicked it up a notch, hammering away at refurbishing their home.

Keith has been with New Energy Works longer than anyone can remember. He started out as a timber framer and quickly progressed to being a key member of the management team. You can currently find him in the Construction Group where he splits his time between client development work and estimating, along with site work and troubleshooting.

Keith married a fellow New Energy Worker. He and Susan couldn't make their minds up when it came to kids, so they had one of each.

We have a few staff members who swapped web gear for tool belts. Tad's one of them; an ex-Marine who currently supervises the construction of our clients' homes and puts his own unmistakable stamp of quality on every project he touches.

Tad and wife Caitlin are proud parents of three and when he can spare time away from being a devoted father, Tad is an avid outdoorsman.

Carpenter Tom likes his life in pairs. He has four children, two boys and two girls, and two dogs. When out of the house he’s camping & hunting - and when in the house he’s pairing beer and NASCAR. We give him two thumbs up.

Steve's one of those good-natured bundles of energy who are impossible to faze. He can be found supervising subcontractors on a GC project, swinging a hammer and enclosing a frame or just generally in the thick of things.

Bill is quick to smile even in the toughest construction environments - rain, snow, or shine. While he spends much of his time enclosing our frames,  he recently experienced his first timber frame raising. Stay tuned for more info on Bill!

Brad has enjoyed a love of carpentry and wood since he was a boy, a passion that has earned him a living since his school days. He's a member of our construction team, though he often lends a hand in the timber frame shop or in the office supporting clients. He and his wife Erin are expecting a baby girl much to the delight of soon-to-be big brother. In his spare time Brad is remodeling their home, an old farm house in the middle of no where, yet just 20 minutes from our Farmington shop.

Grande Fromage of both NEW and PMW, J.O. spends much of his time jetting around the globe in search of the next cool project, the best sources of timbers, the next big thing.

When he's not over-working, you'll find him tooling down the muddy inclines of Victor's single track or in the West, trolling up the Willamette River or speeding down Mt. Hood's glacier. On the home front, Jonathan enjoys the craziness of family life with adventurous & quizzical Jake River chasing after Dexter-the-dog, the occasional visit from an all-grown-up Sierra, and the ever-patient Maxine who manages to keep them all in health, in love and in line.

After a decade of heading up the engineering department and timber frame division, Brian is now the general manager for NEW. When he's not scheduling production, ordering timbers, designing frames, running into the shop, managing - you get the idea - he's chasing after his daughter Madeline and spending time with his wife Christy.

Karen is our Finance Manager and although she tries to project the personality of a pit bull, once you get to know her she's actually all warm & fuzzy. Grandchildren, amateur dramatics, boating and her duties as a Rotarian round out her time when she's not in the finance office.

When you call or walk through the door of our East Coast shop you’ll be greeted with a cheerful smile and quick “hello” from Marcy. With unflappable optimism, crazy organizational skills, and lots of get-up-and-go, Marcy keeps us all in line and informed. If she’s not managing the office, Marcy is likely managing her two boys, husband Matt, their young German Shepherd, Bella or putting finishing touches on one of her other big passions - catering special events.

A native of the Rochester region, Pam joined our finance group in Farmington NY with positive energy and a contagious smile. Outside of work, Pam and her husband Jeremy are honing their swimming and soccer jargon thanks to their daughter Ella and son Connor’s avid interest in both sports. When she has a free moment Pam can be found shopping – she can hold her own with any bargain hunter – or jogging. Last year she ran her first 5K and we know she’s planning to conquer a few more in 2012. 

Kori is a member of our finance team supporting both Pioneer Millworks and New Energy Works. She handles all our accounts payable and a handful of other number crunching, bean counting duties. She’s quick to laugh and enjoys stirring things up. A breakfast fiend, she has the office group addicted to breakfast pizza and even the occasional chain-restaurant egg sandwich. Her son, Michael, is a senior in high school and we expect once he’s off to college Kori will fill her free time honing her already formidable billiards skills, sharpening up her dart throwing, and poolside relaxing.

When Jennifer isn't honing her timber skills — you'll find her pouring over the latest industry trends, figures, campaigns and guerillas [advertising, not Primates]. Inspired by the curiosity of her three boys, her husband Will's rock star musings and the writings of Seth Godin, it's only on the crystal slopes of Hunt Hollow Ski Slopes that her body gets to catch up with the pace of her creativity. Jennifer is also currently an officer on the Timber Frame Business Council.

After a good gallop across the countryside on her horse, Megan can be found putting her creativity and multitasking abilities to work in the office. A stickler for making things happen accurately and on time, the only place she lets things slide is at home with her husband (that is when he's not working at nuclear plants around the globe). You might hear Megan's voice when you give us a call, but be warned, if you ask about her horse you're in for at least a half hour conversation.

Craig joined us in January '08, after a spell of freelance work. A man of many talents, he's at his best when immersed in the world of colors, shapes & typography, pulling together the elements of design to make our stuff look groovy. If you have any comments about this site, let him know. Outside of work, he's settling into his old RIT stomping grounds following his return from New Jersey. His roots in the upstate NY soil are about to get a little deeper, as he and wife Kathryn have just had their first child, a baby boy!

Drake came to us from his own custom building enterprise in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he now serves as our midwest representative. Some of Drake's great pleasures include playing bluegrass music on one of his many guitars or mandolins, traveling across country in his pickup camper, relaxing by the fire with his wife, five kids and other family and friends or hiking in the woods with his troupe of dogs. His newest heart throb is his grandson Max, the first grandkid in the family.

Mechanic and fixer of all-things-broken - Nick comes to the rescue of motors all around the shop & mill. He's part of the office motorcycle brigade - commuting from Palmyra on his Yamaha cruiser. As a true gear-head he comes home covered in mud after playing with which ever 4-wheeler or snowmobile he's currently restored to working order.

Pam spent a good part of her career working for the US Post Office. Among other skills she acquired there, she has an inate ability to make fast friends with dogs. Our office canines know the days Pam works, and have learned to b-line to her desk the minute she arrives, there they wait (impatiently) until the biscuit is handed over. Pam also volunteers at the local animal shelter, but saves her best doting for her nieces and nephews.

Charlie is our official office greeter. Guests are met by a wet nose against their hands, his big brown eyes and constantly wagging tail. While visiting us in the office has to be one of Charlie's favorite things (who wouldn't like getting pet and treats from everyone!) he also loves chasing the tennis ball or Frisbee.

Dexter is a Brittany rescued by Maxine, Jake, and Jonathan. He's a big-hearted sort of a guy who doesn't have a mean bone in his body. Loved, and now missed by all in the NY shop since he took up his new assignment in Portland, OR at The Vermont Street Project.