Current member of the following committees:
EDH - Education and Housing (Chair)
HRE - Higher Education (Vice-Chair)
CPN - Commerce and Consumer Protection
- Born: May 22, 1947, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Married, wife Penny
- Children - David, Greg, and Katherine
- Palolo Elementary
- University Lab School 1965
- University of Hawaii, BS 1969
- University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana MS 1970
- SC Pacific Corp and Roll-A-Way Shutters of the Pacific
- S&M Sakamoto, Inc.
- US Army Corps of Engineers
- City of Los Angeles
- CPC - California Packing Corp. (first job, pineapple cannery tray-boy)
- Registered Civil Engineer (Hawaii and California)
- Licensed General Contractor
- State Senate since 1996
- Moanalua Gardens Community Association, Director and Vice Chair
- Boy Scouts of America, Scoutmaster, Assistant Scoutmaster
- Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset
- Moanalua Lions Club
- City and County of Honolulu, Building Permit Streamlining Advisory Board
- State of Hawaii, Contractors License Board
- Building Industry Association of Hawaii, Past President
- Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii
- National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), Leadership Council
- Construction Industry Legislative Organization (CILO)
- White House Conference on Small Business, Hawaii Delegate 1995
- Hawaii Congress on Small Business, Co-Chair
- National Association of Home Builders, Director
- Home Builders Institute, Director
- International Fellowship of Christian Businessmen
- Kalihi Business Association, Legislative Director
- Waipahu Business Association
- Aiea Pearl City Business Associaton
- Aiea Community Association
- Moanalua Garderns Foundation
- Radford High School Foundation, Advisory Board
- Boys and Girls Club, Aliamanu Advisory Board
- School To Work Council, Farrington Complex
- City and County Visioning Teams
- Education and Technology Committee, Vice Chair, 1998 -
- Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, Co-Chair 1996 - 98
- Judiciary Committee, 1996-
- Labor Committee, 1996 - 98
- Government and Housing Committee, 1998 -
- Small Business Caucus, Co-Chair 1996 -
- Keiki Caucus
- Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization (OMPO) 1996 - 1999
- Impaired Driving Task Force