Billy began his career working with his life-long friend, Greg Tracey. From 1993-1995, he was hired by Aciero Racing to work as a mechanic and Pit Crew in the Indy car series. That also afforded him the ability to work the world’s most famous race, the Indy 500. As the Indy Car series split, his career took a turn into the film industry. Billy began his film career as a PA for Joe Pytka. He spent many hours learning the industry. After that, Billy went to Shelly Ward Enterprises, a leading car prep company in the commercial industry. He spent 14 years at Shelly Ward building relationships and becoming more knowledgeable about the industry that combined his two passions, cars and film.

While at Shelly Ward, Billy traveled the world prepping, rigging and building vehicles for car commercials such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Toyota. After leaving Shelley Ward, Billy joined some life-long friends to make the film, “Act of Valor,” by acting as the car coordinator for the entire movie. After the movie was completed, in 2010, Billy joined Ted Moser and Picture Car Warehouse. Later that year, he created and founded Action Vehicle Engineering.

Action Vehicle Engineering was started to cater to car commercial and specialty build clientele. Upon opening this new company, Billy partnered with Mattel to create full size Hot Wheels. As the company became more of a success, the name officially changed to Action Vehicle Engineering, a name that better explained what the company does.