About Me

I went to college not knowing where I was going to end up or what I wanted to do.  I graduated college with a much clearer idea - I want to use the gifts given to me and tools available to help people with the things I've learned.

I have been so fortunate to have had opportunities to try all kinds of new things and I always love to learn more - I've been involved in acting, orchestra, a cappella, blacksmithing, soccer, volleyball, frisbee, honors programs, filmmaking, radio production, sales, audio engineering, podcasting, voice acting, product development, cycling, software development, linguistics, teaching, tutoring, video gaming, social media content creation, project management, serving a full-time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Taiwan, and now consulting!

Despite all of that, my greatest joy is in my family.  I grew up never expecting much accomplishment from myself because, despite all the things I did, I was never the best at them.  When I got married to the love of my life and then when my daughter was born, however, I felt inspired to step up my game, embrace life's challenges, and get things done.  My wife and I started a business (Scooties Baby Mats!) and I launched my consulting career here.

I discovered a love for project management a few years ago working in Chinese product development and manufacturing, and when I switched to software development that love only grew with learning Agile and Scrum practices on top of the traditional Waterfall approach.  Even as a freshman in college working at the local radio station, my coworkers lovingly called me "The Systemetizer" because of my knack for finding more efficient processes, systems, workflows, and automation.