Dave got into radio control cars back in 1987 with his first RC car: a Tamiya Blackfoot. Ever since then he was hooked. In 1992 he started racing off-road with a Team Losi Jr. T. For years he concentrated on off-road 2WD electric and attended many ROAR and NORRCA events. To Dave, RC wasn't about winning–but was about enjoying the hobby and the atmosphere it created. With enough electric experience under his belt, Dave moved onto 2WD nitro truck with a Traxxas Nitro Hawk. Not satisfied, Dave decided to design and build his own Associated RC10 nitro truck conversion (a year before Associated's original RC10 GT). Later he went on to also do a Team Losi nitro LXT, nitro XX-T conversions, a highly modified touring car chassis, and Team Associated T4 nitro conversion.

A few years later, Dave started racing on-road at a local parking lot track in Southern California called Hobby Masters. There he became so involved with the racing that he and a friend eventually took over as race directors. Hobby Masters soon became THE place to race in Southern California with big names such as Gil Losi Jr., Barry Baker, Brian Kinwald, Richard Trujillo, and Rick Howart showing up to race. At its peak they were averaging 70-80 entries on any given Saturday afternoon.

Soon Dave began working for Xtreme RC Cars Magazine part-time, helping with layout and writing. His first full-time RC job however was at Team Losi in 1997. Three years later Dave went back to Xtreme RC, but with a full-time position as the magazine's Online Editor / Graphic Artist. In 2002 he designed what would become the PTI Goliath, the "world's first hobby grade RC mini monster truck."

Ever since then, Dave has been involved in many aspects of the RC hobby and has raced everything from 2WD off-road and 1/8-scale buggy/truggy to 4WD Touring car, micros and more. He's also into full-sized motorsports, being a member of the Subaru Internet Performance Panel (SIPP) from 2000-2003. He is currently Xtreme RC's Senior Graphic Artist, and co-founder of RC DriftClub.

While working at Xtreme his second time around, Dave was inspired by the then new Proline Sierra Micro truck body for the Micro RS4. He thought it would be cool to design and build a small scale radio control monster truck using this body. So with that, he set out to build what nobody at that time had done... to build a 18th scale monster truck. With a little help from his girlfriends dad (now father-in-law) he milled and cut aluminum to make his idea a reality. When the MMT was first thought of however, he had no intension of it becoming a produced kit. It was just a personal project that he thought would be cool to build and show in the pages of Xtreme RC Cars. After completing the truck it was featured in issue 86 of XRC as a custom build. It was a huge hit. He received e-mails and phone calls asking to have a truck built or even if he would sell his original. Dave refused to sell. Until that one phone call. That voice on the other side was Paul Renna from PTI. Paul knew the potential this little truck had and wanted to produce a kit. After a brief meeting the two came to an agreement and the MMT, or Goliath, production went into full swing. After a few minor setbacks the MMT finally made it to store shelves as what is now known as the PTI Goliath MMT and Goliath Rock Crawler. Dave even went as far as taking a production kit and converted it into a nitro buring micro monster.