Joe is the founder of Panel Craft, a company focused on repairing and rebuilding vintage sports cars. He began working in the sheet metal trade in the mid-70s and by the late 70s he was contracted to work at GMs Tech Center where he spent most of his time in Research and Development and Advanced Product Engineering. In 1985 he founded and ran New England Metal Crafters in Newburyport Massachusetts and later moved to nearby Amesbury. In 1992 he changed the name to Panel Craft, LLC to better reflect the nature of the business and has been doing it ever since.