Graduated from Iowa State University with Bachelors degree in Engineering. Has a Masters Certificate in Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. He has been an INCOSE member since 2016. His entire career has been working for defense companies doing Systems Engineering and Integration/Testing. He has worked for Lockheed Martin, Rockwell Collins (now Collins Aerospace), a UTC company, Orbital ATK (now Northrup Grumman), and has worked for General Dynamics Mission Systems since 2017. He is currently a Systems Architect and a Digital Engineering Coach, helping programs learn to use Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) effectively.