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Bruce will bring Experience and Energy to the MI City Council.
Island Resident and Blogger, Richard Sprague, Interviews Bruce
Recent Community Projects He's Led
Upgraded Islander Middle School’s Dirt Field to Turf: Spearheaded the effort to bring together the City Council, School Board, users, and neighbors to gather support, define the project and identify funding options for the IMS dirt field upgrade.
Brought Island Point Neighborhood Together to complete two significant projects: Initiated meetings and established neighborhood email group for approximately 100 homes that resulted in successfully getting the City to create a raised crosswalk. Here's a link to the newspaper story: Islanders pitch in, pay for speed bump
Volunteered Hundreds of Hours to Improve Our Community: From coalition building to doing the hard work, Bruce rolls up his sleeves to make our community a better place.
About Bruce
After a successful career that included 10 years as founder and a fiscally-responsible CEO of a small high tech company, Bruce now focuses his time and energy on his family and working to make Mercer Island a better place to live. 
Bruce serves on the Open Space Conservancy Trust Board, which manages Pioneer Park. He has a keen interest in environmental issues and will build on the sustainability work that the city council has begun.
A community leader on Mercer Island, Bruce has coached youth soccer teams and acted as treasurer for the Mercer Island Soccer Association, which supports adult soccer on the island.
Bruce just retired as Mercer Island’s leader of the father-son program, Y-Adventure Guides. Thanks to his organizational efforts, Lake Heights YMCA named him a Volunteer of the Year. To see the website that he developed for the program, go to http://yguides.wikispaces.com.
Bruce has a solid record of academic and business achievement. He grew up in the Olympia area, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth College in 1983. His degree in Engineering Science led to a job with Intel Corporation in California. Five years later, he earned a masters degree from the University of Michigan and returned to California to work for Raychem Corporation. In 1991, he jumped into the entrepreneurial waters where he founded and built a successful technology company.
Bruce lives in the Island Point neighborhood with his wife Nannette, who is active in the Washington Women’s Foundation, the Mercer Island Women’s Club, and the PTA. Their daughter, Emily, is a sixth grader at Islander Middle School and their son, William, is in 3rd grade at Lakeridge Elementary.