Sam is long time resident of Lamoille County. In 1976, he came to Lamoille County as a freshman at Johnson State College and has spent all phases of adult life here. From his ski bum days at Smugglers Notch to raising a family in Cambridge, Sam has spent countless hours passionately serving Cambridge and Lamoille County Residents as a serial volunteer.

Sam’s Board work includes serving on the Cambridge Elementary School Board,
Planning Commission, Cambridge Economic Advisory Committee, and Rec Board. He is also one of the founding members of the Cambridge Area Rotary and served as Club President in 2013 – 14 and 2020 – 21. 

Currently he is one of the charter Governing Board members of Lamoille Fiber Net Communications Unified District. https://lamoillefiber.net/  Starting in 2020 Lamoille Fiber started engineering studies and financial planning to connect fiber to the home/business to over 4000 underserved and unserved Lamoille County addresses. During 2024 Sam and his fellow Governing Board members over saw the build out that provides access to fiber internet throughout Lamoille County.

Sam is also member of the Lamoille County Planning Commission serving as one the Cambridge Representative.

Sam brings to the United Way Board his passion for and vast community service experience, as well as his diverse work experience.

During his 40-year professional career, he worked in information technology. Sam’s
focus was on enterprise-wide software and data network implementations. He worked extensively in healthcare, education, government, and across the for-profit space. As Sam puts it, he did just about everything during technical rollouts except write the code!

Although he adds he learned about everything one needs to know about effectively
working with diverse and energetic groups when he was a middle level math and
science teacher! 

When not performing community service, Sam still teaches skiing at Smugglers Notch, and enjoys hiking, biking, kayaking, and travel adventures with his spouse Anita. He also enjoys spending time with his two adult sons and their significant others who live and work in Lamoille County.