Nick took a night course welding with his older brother just out of high school and did well. He then pursued a structural welding job at Cianbro where he was hired and worked as a structural welder for 1 year prior to being accepted to train as a pipe welder. He was trained in multiple pipe welding processes and excelled as a pipe welder. He was chosen to represent Cianbro at the National ABC Craft Championships for pipe welding and won first place! He went on to weld for years on oil refinery piping for the Motiva project that was built right in Brewer and then barged to Texas. When that job ended, he took a position in the fabrication shop for Cianbro where gained a large amount of fabrication and structural welding experience. After many years he applied at General Electric where h was able to do precision TIG welding on steam turbine components. He was trained in Level 2 non-destructive testing for VT, MT, and PT. At GE he also operated CNC lathes for several years. He has now been teaching for 2 years and has been certified as a CAWI through he AWS.