About me
A Veteran Setting Down Roots in the Community
I was born in Long Branch, NJ to Robert and Julia King in 1982. Our family relocated to rural PA in 1993. Following high school in 2001, I joined the Navy as a Nuclear Electronics Technician. I was stationed in Charleston, SC and Ballston Spa, NY for military schools before being transferred to Groton, CT where I served on the USS Hartford for 5 years as a Reactor Technician and Operator. Following more military school in Portsmouth, VA, I served as a Radiological Controls Technician in Groton, CT for another 3 years before being honorably discharged upon completing my military service in 2010. Between 2010 and 2012 I attended Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, CT, earning an Associate’s Degree in Laser and Fiber Optic Technology. In 2013, I began working as a laser technician at Trumpf, Inc in Farmington, CT. In 2016, I was hired by IPG Photonics in Oxford where I am currently employed.
I purchased my first home in New London, CT while I was stationed in nearby Groton in 2004, but spent a year and a half in Dover, NH for the USS Hartford’s overhaul in 2006/2007. I also lived with my fiancé at the time in New York, NY for 2013. In 2018 after years of exceedingly long commutes, I decided it was time to move closer to work and began looking for a place in the area to make my ‘forever home’ and purchased our home at 59 Quobaug Ave in Oxford.
I have always been interested in being more involved in my community, but years of deployments and relocations while in the Navy followed by multiple hours of daily commutes made it impossible until I came here to Oxford. Over the last three years I have spent increasing amounts of time learning about how the town operates. I believe that I am ready to rise to the challenge of being a Selectman and that I have a unique perspective. I have a willingness to dedicate as much of my time and effort as it takes to hear out residents of the town and to take action on their behalf.