Elected to represent the Strangford constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly in March 2007. 

Deputy Chairperson of the Finance & Personnel Committee.

Member of the Enterprise, Trade & Investment Committee.

Member of the Public Accounts Committee.

Vice Chair of the Assembly All Party Group on Energy.

Member of the Assembly All Party Group on International Development.

Councillor on Ards Borough Council since 2005 representing the Newtownards Town DEA.

Chairman of the Council’s Rates Sub-Committee, helping Ards to set its lowest percentage rate increase in five years in 2007.

Lives in Comber with his wife Nicki and their son Lewis.

Educated at Comber Primary School and Regent House School.

Graduate of The Queen’s University of Belfast holding honours degrees in history/politics and law.

Began his career as an auditor with a leading accountancy firm before becoming the DUP’s Press Officer.

Member of the Board of Governors of Newtownards Model Primary School and West Winds Primary School, also in Newtownards.

Member of both the Orange Order and the Royal Black Institution.