Our dent repair technicians
in Bellevue, WA

My journey in paintless dent repair began in February 1999, when I graduated from dent school. I spent the next six years at Dent Wiz sharpening my skills, where I was also trusted to train new technicians fresh out of school. Teaching others the craft made me a better tech myself.

In 2004 I took the leap and founded Dent Solutions. In the beginning it was just me, working out of the back of my car and handling every part of the business, the repairs and the phone calls and the scheduling, all of it. As word spread and the workload grew beyond what one person could handle well, I was fortunate to bring on excellent technicians who share my standards for quality work.

Cars were not my first arena. Competition was. I earned a pre-law degree from Pacific Lutheran University in 1994, where I played college soccer on scholarship. The game took me all over the world, and those years taught me the discipline and drive I still bring to work every day.

Speed has always been in my blood. I raced off road motocross for many years, then spent fourteen years road racing motorcycles up and down the West Coast, in Washington, Oregon and California.

I have always loved cars and customizing them, and I think that is exactly why I am so passionate about what I do. Not just fixing cars, but taking care of the people who bring them to me. I own a few rare trucks myself, and there is nothing better than meeting fellow car owners and staying involved in the local car scene. I am a family man with two great kids who love joining me at car gatherings.

I started working in the PDR industry in the mid 90s, for a prominent local company called Dent Masters in Northern Virginia. I had been doing leather furniture restoration and taught myself reupholstery in the process. I had just bought an industrial sewing machine and planned to start my own upholstery business. That is when I learned about PDR. Several close friends who worked in the industry introduced me to it, and I was instantly hooked. I loved the idea of taking something that was damaged and returning it to its original condition.

Initially most of my time was spent on used cars at dealerships and wholesale work, but I soon branched out into retail work for private customers. I helped start and run the first retail shop in the area, working with two other techs, in Tysons Corner, Virginia, one of the busiest areas for business in the country just outside DC.

In 2002 I branched out again, this time on my own, and became a hail chaser exclusively. I watched storm trackers to identify areas with large hail damage and partnered with local PDR companies to repair them. After adopting my daughter from China in 2005 I did not want to travel anymore, so I left the industry and stayed close to home. The following year I moved to Seattle. For the next decade I worked in other industries entirely, including bartending, restaurant and bar management, furniture delivery, quality control and furniture sales.

Fast forward to 2018, when I got a call from a close friend in Virginia who told me he had given my name to a local dent tech, Doug Hillius, who had a retail shop and was looking to hire. We met, and it seemed like the planets had aligned for me to jump back in with both feet. Getting back into PDR felt natural, like riding a bike. That following winter, my first year back, I competed in an international dent competition and took fourth place among the best in the industry. I have never looked back.

Since 2018 I have honed my skills more and more, working on more extreme damage and removing dents that once did not seem possible with PDR.

I have always had a passion for cars, and that passion started shaping my career long before I entered the paintless dent repair industry. In high school my interest in the automotive world led me to take auto detailing and auto body courses, giving me an early introduction to the craftsmanship and attention to detail that goes into working with vehicles.

After high school I ran the detail shop at a local family owned luxury body shop. From there I moved to an all hand car wash at a local specialty dealership. That is where I met Doug in 2008. During the seven years I spent at that dealership, Doug and I had many conversations about paintless dent removal and the opportunities in the industry. Those conversations eventually inspired me to turn a longtime passion into a career.

Before making the move officially, I wanted to learn as much as I could about the trade firsthand. For an entire year I spent my one day off each week shadowing Doug, watching him work and learning the ins and outs of paintless dent removal. That experience gave me a much deeper understanding of the skill, patience and precision the trade requires, and it confirmed this was the career path I wanted.

In May 2015 I attended Dent Time in San Diego to complete my professional dent repair training. Just one month later, in June 2015, I joined Doug as the very first employee at Dent Solutions, and I have proudly been here ever since. Over the years I have continued to develop as a technician while also helping train and mentor new technicians entering the industry.

Cars have always been more than a job for me. I genuinely enjoy the car scene and love attending shows whenever I get the chance, whether that is the newest supercars or rows of beautifully restored classics at Goodguys. One of my personal goals is to someday build a show car of my own. Outside of work, family is a huge part of my life: my wife, my two daughters and our English bulldog.

I grew up around cars and racing in the Seattle area. Teenage pit crew member to aspiring driver, which led to a German service and race shop in my twenties, to the computer world, and back to autobody by my thirties.

PDR had always been intriguing, so here I am, three and a half years into it with the best crew in the PNW.

I have been part of the Dent Solutions team since 2020, where I oversee our office operations and help customers through every step of the repair process. I work closely with insurance companies and coordinate estimates and scheduling, to make sure everything runs smoothly from the first phone call to the day your vehicle is returned.

I believe great customer service starts with clear communication, honesty, and treating every customer with the care and respect they deserve. My goal is to make your experience as stress free and positive as possible.