Ascent Builders, Inc.

I married my high school sweetheart and together we have three kids with great personalities. We enjoy family and having the kids over for a meal on Sundays. I love to be in the outdoors and enjoy hiking, backpacking and mountaineering. Fast cars are a blast and restoring muscle cars has taught me to be handy with simple mechanical tools. The best benefit is burning rubber, of course.

Since I was a kid, building forts, playing with Tonka toys and making roads and dams was my idea of fun. Going to school in Engineering further kindled my interest in how things are built. My first taste of the construction industry came during college courtesy of my brother, who helped me become a journeyman carpenter. By the time I graduated, the choice between a desk job designing buildings or a job in the field building them was easy…and I have never looked back.

I grew up in a small town just the way all kids should.  If I wasn’t at school I was around the corner playing whiffle ball, in the street playing football or out front shooting baskets. I had a bike with a banana seat and a sissy bar, I was a Boy Scout and I played Little League baseball.  How good is that !!!  As a senior in High School I was accepted into the engineering program at UC Davis and the school of architecture at Cal Poly SLO.  I was told that you couldn’t play baseball and study architecture at Cal Poly so I was an Aggie and a civil engineer.

At Davis I studied hard, played ball, went to football games, attended my share of parties, and met my wife Michelle.  She’ll tell you that I was in desperate need of help with chemistry but I know she was star struck by a big-time college ballplayer living on her floor.  However it started, we’ve been best friends ever since.  After college Michelle went on to get her medical degree while I got started with my construction career.

Our two-some is now a four-some as we have two girls.  Kendall is a Sophomore Heath Sciences major at Nebraska.  Along with classes and rooting for the Huskers she is a proud member of Chi Omega.  Camryn is a Sophomore at Oak Ridge High School. When she isn't on a softball field or a volleyball court you can find her baking up a storm in the kitchen.  It's safe to say we are very proud of both of them.

I grew up in the foothills in El Dorado Hills in a family of all boys (my poor mom!).  There are four of us including one set of twins--although we look like triplets. My dream was to own a nice chunk of land with a cool house, guest house, and a rockin' pool, but instead I bought a fixer in Roseville.

I like to be able to sit back with a beer while I'm out working in my woodshop.  I love to build stuff: desks, cabinets--anything really!  Camping and hiking in and around Yosemite and the Sierras is one of my favorite things to do.  I also spend a lot of the spare time I have at Woodcreek High School teaching Theatre Technology including lighting and set design and construction.

My wife, Megan, and I are expecting our first child in early October and can't wait for this new adventure!

I grew up in Portland, Sacramento, and now live in Los Angeles. Having been up and down the west coast, I have always enjoyed swimming and surfing. I am lucky to live close to the beach now so I can continue to do both. I also love hiking. Really, any outdoor activity in nature makes me happy. I am big into sports, my two favorites would have to be basketball and golf. I am an avid golfer and love to be out on the course whenever I have free time. My teams are the Dodgers and Lakers! I also volunteer at The Salvation Army - I think it is important to find a cause you care about and give back.

I've lived in the Sacramento area most of my life.  Most of my family is still around here somewhere, but I moved up to El Dorado Hills many years ago with my Australian Cattle dog, Boogie.  Some years after I got married to my wife, Laura, and the rest is history. We have two children, Miles and Lydia.

I like to work on classic cars - I currently have a 1966 Chevy Nova and a 1949 Willys Overland pickup.  I enjoy horror movies and video games (when I have time).  I like doing outdoor activities with my family like camping and rafting etc.

I grew up in Napa in a family of wine-loving, grape-growing enthusiasts. Don't ask me how I didn't get the wine-loving gene; give me a beer any day. Now I live in East Sacramento with my wife, Julia, and our sons, Connor and Oliver.

I'm a huge movie buff and will watch pretty much any good movie regardless of genre. As a kid growing up in the 80's, I got hooked on video-games and that is always a way I like to burn up free time (what's that?). My wife and I love food and trying new restaurants or bars. We love to hike and spend time up in the mountains. When the weather is nice you can bet I'll be playing basketball or making my way to the slopes for some snowboarding. Depending on the season, you'll find me rooting for the Sharks, Warriors, 49ers, & Giants.

I was born and raised in Sacramento. Both my dad and brother were carpenters and I've always liked working with my hands, so I signed on with Local 586 in 1977.  A couple of years later I married the love of my life, Suzanne Lizotte.  We spent eight fun packed years traveling, buying a home and generally having a ball before we decided it was time to have a family. In 1986 everything changed...  I went back to school and the first of our two daughters, Jessica, was born.  Five years and a degree in Construction Management later we had Kathryn and our family was complete.

I'm a golf junkie and I try to get in 27 holes a week.  I enjoy being outside biking, hiking and kayaking.  I'm a home improvement warrior and I still like to put on my bags and swing a hammer. Suzanne and I love to spend time at the beach in Aptos and we are looking forward to returning to the road. With softball games, school bake sales, graduations and two weddings behind us and two newly arrived granddaughters, Suzanne and I are ready to embrace retirement...

I was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, the daughter of a former heavyweight boxer turned longshoreman. My mom was Wonder Woman... she raised the kids, baked, fixed things around the house and generally made sure everything was just so. I was the center on my high school basketball team and I played forward in college (that was way before Title 9). After college I moved from Oregon to California to live the dream.

Over the next few years I bounced up and down the peninsula until I met my husband Larry and we relocated to beautiful Granite Bay. We raised our four boys here and are now so close to becoming empty nesters. Some of my favorite things to do when I’m not working… golfing with my husband or just hanging out with my granddaughter Emma. I also volunteer my time as a board member for “Wellness Within”, I find this to be incredibly rewarding.

Sacramento is my hometown. My husband, daughter and I like to spend our time playing at the park, cooking together at home, and re-watching episodes of The Office.

In my spare time, I enjoy reading, watching hockey (let's go Sh-arks!), and playing recreational sports--mostly volleyball. I am also passionate about music and the performing arts. I grew up on stage, and still volunteer my time acting, singing and dancing whenever I can.

I’m a Sacramento native. My wife, Cheryl, and I live in South Land Park and have four kids (2 girls, 2 boys) and four grandkids (all boys!). We are not campers or hikers; we are hotel/resort people. We love to travel, especially with our kids, throughout the U.S.

Cheryl and I love to cook and in 2015 we started a competition BBQ team, The Cherry Lane Smokers. We are both KCBS certified BBQ judges. I got my first hole in one in 2014 and have performed seven wedding ceremonies (all still married!). On the downside, I’m colorblind, did not catch my first fish until I was 42 years old, and can't sing a lick. I love music though--there are over 7,000 songs on my iPod!

I was born and raised in the Midwest until the early 90’s when I moved out to California, where I met my husband. We moved to the Bay Area in 2000 and lived there for a few years before moving to the Sacramento area. In 2002 I responded to an ad in the Sacramento Bee, which is how I found Ascent Builders and have been here ever since.

Our beautiful daughter was born in 2013 and completely changed our world. Our weekends transitioned from golfing, wine tasting, or date night, to play dates, nap time and birthday parties, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. My husband loves to cook, so BBQ’s at our place with friends and family is a regular occurrence. It’s a great way to get everyone together and I never have to do the cooking. Visiting Lake Tahoe has become a preferred pastime, whether camping or tubing and playing in the snow, it is one of our favorite places to be.

Growing up in a small town in Southeastern Idaho provided me the type of childhood every kid should be able to enjoy. It was a simple life full of family, sports, church, service to others, and endless days exploring. As a kid, very little time was spent indoors, and as a result, I was outdoors building forts, tree houses, playing ball in an empty field in the summer and ice skating in that same area in the winter. The creativity needed to come up with my daily entertainment fueled my desire to go into business in college, and later as the tech field emerged to go into technology because of its ever changing fast paced environment.

In 1988, I was able to complete my undergraduate degree and then got married to Lisa two weeks later which was a perfect capstone to my college experience. We have three wonderful children Megan, Forrest, and Cole.

I grew up in Southern California and traveled the whole Western United States for work.  I now live in Oakley and am married to a wonderful gal from the Northern California area after a lengthy 5 year engagement. I now have two grown-up sons, and a great 14 year old daughter (who’s one heck of softball player).

My passion is living life to the fullest all the time. You used to find me wake surfing on the water, snowboarding in the mountains, or working on something with an engine. Now I’m usually at the ball fields helping as assistant coach on her team. My real love is now my wife Janet and my mistresses the Harley Davidsons: '02 Road King Classic and '13 Road Glide Custom - there's just nothin' better! I'm a real hard nose at work and on the job-site but I enjoy a good laugh and am easy-going when I'm with my family and friends.

I am originally from Sebastopol, CA, a small town of 7,000 on the west side of Sonoma county.  I graduated from Analy High School in 1989, attended the Santa Rosa Junior College for three years and moved to Sacramento in 1992 to attend Sacramento State University (go Hornets!) where I majored in Construction Management.  While at Sac State, I worked at Granite Construction, where I got some great experience, but realized that road construction was not my thing.  I was lucky enough to get a job here right after college and never left.  I married my wife Nikki in 2017. Our blended family consists of Nikki’s son Tyler, my boys Andrew and Ben, and our fur babies Chloe and Roxy.

We have a family cabin in Arnold, CA that we try to take advantage of as often as we can.  If you want to go somewhere to get away from it all, that’s the place to be.  I enjoy being outside…playing golf, doing yard work, walking the dogs, spending the day at the beach, or just relaxing in the backyard.  The boys are in to snowboarding…Nikki and I are into staying warm in the lodge with an adult beverage. When it comes to sports, I am all in on the SF Giants and 49ers.