My introduction to Mayhew came to me through a brief email from my father stating: "Yo Matt, you should check this place out.  Might be fun for the summer."  I was in the process of looking for a summer job to simply 'pay the bills' until my next (and last) semester of college started in the fall.  Little did I know, however, that I would be instantly hooked on Mayhew and extend my stay past the summer and into a full-time position.

I've been with the program for more than a few years now and I can certainly say that New Hampshire is my new "home".  It took some getting used to though…

I was born in the great (and ridiculously flat) state of Indiana.  It's tough to recall memories from way back then, but I do know that my friend and I would constantly play outside.  One of my fondest memories of my youth was jumping in and out of the humongous leaf piles in our backyard in the fall.  For some odd reason, I also remember a very small step in our house that lead from the kitchen to the living room.  I also recall tripping over that step so many times that I became frightened of it and had to jump over it.

When I was five my family and I moved to New York and, unfortunately, we moved into a house that had too many steps to count, both inside and out!  I was able to overcome my fear and lived out the rest of my days there feeling triumphant that I could manage the stairs with ease.  The best part of living in New York was the hills and snow, especially in our backyard.  Many days were spent building snow forts and massive sledding jumps almost too big to go over followed by hot-chocolate and GI-Joe reruns inside! 

After middle school I attended high-school, which was scary at first but became easier as I got involved in playing soccer and doing a lot of skiing in the winter.  That's pretty much what my time there looked like for four years: In the fall and spring I'd go to class then play soccer and in the winter I'd go to class and then go skiing.  Of course, I always kept up with my studies!

After high-school I enrolled in college, which became a tough challenge of sorts.  I ended up attending four different schools trying to figure out what I wanted to study.  I was extremely fortunate to have a great teacher at my third school take me under his wing and get me interested in Criminal Justice.  Two years later I graduated with a degree and found myself moving up to Plymouth to start my Mayhew career!

As of right now, I live with my best friend and a cat named Autumn, who really enjoys eating any kind of electrical wire readily available.  Interestingly, there's a small step that looks eerily similar to that first one way back in Indiana…