Background

A guide should be plain about the road he’s actually traveled. Beneath the ministry and the music is a working life — classrooms, consulting, and the schooling that shaped it. God gave me time in the marketplace, the studio, and the classroom, and I’ve tried to steward all of it.

Teaching

For about a decade I taught technology, programming, and audio-video production.

Pittsburgh Technical Institute

Instructor (1998–2002), then Department Chair of Electronics (2002–2005), leading a team of nine and overseeing curriculum, scheduling, and budget. Taught database design and management, A+ technologies, and operating systems.

Adjunct Professor, Pittsburgh Technical Institute

Information Technology, Multimedia Technology, and Programming, with a specialty in database development and management.

iCarnegie (a Carnegie Mellon University subsidiary)

Mentored new professors at institutions adopting iCarnegie’s courses; certified to teach its database and user-interface curriculum.

Consulting

Alongside the teaching, I spent years in independent IT and business-process consulting — infrastructure, networking, custom software, and streamlining how a business runs. A representative project: in 2006 I helped Volkwein’s Music, a company more than a century old, modernize its IT infrastructure and business-process software. The mix I brought was unusual — public accounting, entrepreneurship, technology, and a long study of human behavior — but it came down to one thing: understanding people, and building things that fit them and last.

Education

• Master of Multimedia Technology — California University of Pennsylvania (2005)
• Bachelor of Christian Counseling — Evangelical Theological Seminary (1990)

• Institute of Motivational Living (1988–1990) — personality and motivational analysis, career consulting, and team building; Facilitator Certification, 1990.
• Coursework at the University of Pittsburgh / CCAC (federal tax law and accounting) and the Cleveland Institute of Electronics.

• Golden ADDY Award — “Bundle Them Up,” with WTAE-TV (1988)
• Civic commendations for community projects, including “Put a Rap on Trash” and “Steel Mill Blues.”