About Me

I am a recent graduate of Ohio State’s Master of Education program where I majored in Teaching and Learning with a specialization in Integrated Social Studies. I have experience teaching online Bible lessons, giving tours related to the Underground Railroad, serving as a dorm teacher for an international boarding school and as a student teacher as part of my high school's advanced Spanish program.

In coaching / sport management, I worked my way up from a student basketball coach to become the executive director of what was the largest youth basketball program in northwest Pennsylvania. I also served five years as an assistant softball coach, ran a youth sports camp for four years in upstate New York and served as the only American on a team that launched a community soccer program in Honduras.

In business, I am an experienced freelance web developer and digital marketing consultant. During college, I served as the Chief Information Officer for the first startup to be featured on the cover of U.S. Business Review magazine while also serving as the corporate chairman and vice-president of a national corporation that oversaw three divisions: 1) general consulting, 2) event production and 3) customer satisfaction surveys.

In ministry, I have worked with nearly 300 churches on various youth outreach initiatives while also consulting on strategic planning and technical production. I also planted one of the first purely online-focused churches that saw web traffic from over 80 countries and territories in its first year with weekly viewership peaking around 2,800 for our Six Thirty Saturday Nite service.

I was born in north-central Ohio, grew up in northwest Pennsylvania and attended college at Malone University where I majored in Youth/Sports Ministry while minoring in both Coaching and Sport Management. I am a big Cleveland sports and IndyCar fan. In 2015, my band, the Created... Music Project, won a front-of-line pass to audition for America's Got Talent via a local radio contest. In my free time, I enjoy spending time with family, exploring new hiking/bike trails and rotating between books, movies and video games (I enjoy anything with a good story).

As an athlete, I was part of two national championship track & field teams at Malone University while training and competing with teammates who had Olympic aspirations. In high school, I was invited to play in two international basketball tournaments, was named Who's Who Among American High School Athletes in bowling and participated in community soccer and volleyball programs.