I am primarily a self-taught woodworker having started building furniture & cabinets around 2000.  I enjoy the challenge of working with wood and all of its characteristics. I enjoy the design process and the tools. I especially enjoy the time out in the shop working on better executing techniques I already know, and evolving the process as I go along.

As far as formal instruction I have been lucky to take classes, seminars, and continuing education at the following schools. I would highly recommend them all.

Center for Furniture Craftsmanship (Rockport, ME) - "Intermediate Furniture Making" taught by  Kevin Rodel
Lonnie Bird's School of Fine Woodworking (Dandridge, TN) - "Woodworking Essentials"
Hobbs Furniture Classes (Hertford, NC) - "Bedside Table Class" 
Durham Technical Community College (Durham, NC) - "Intermediate Woodworking"
Elia Bizzarri - Hand Tool Woodworking, LLC  (Hillsborough, NC) - "Continuous Arm Windsor Chair"

I am  a member of the Triangle Woodworkers Association - our local woodworker's guild.

I continue to further my woodworking education daily by reading & following the many publications, blogs, videos, books, etc. available for the craft.

And finally...my grandfather, Harland Orswell McNeill (aka "Bud"), was a woodworker & carpenter himself, so I guess it is somewhat "in my blood." Although I never got to appreciate this about him while he was alive (I was fairly young when he passed away), I enjoy relating to him through the pursuit of this craft.