As a bootstrap entrepreneur, took first start-up venture in 2002 Adirondack Technologies Furniture Inc., from the basement of his home on Hiawatha First Nation, near Peterborough, Ontario, to a nationally recognized organization with sales that exceeded$20 million annually. This venture allowed him to expand into a variety of other entrepreneurial activities, that included the creation of Adirondack Information Management in 2006 (sold in 2021),which provides Information Technology, Engineering, Professional and Administrative Personnel to the private and public sectors across Canada and has become a primary supplier to the Canadian Federal Government, with contracts today exceeding “hundreds of millions of dollars”