Leader in High-Tech Learning, Credentialing & Content Strategy
Poet & Writer
Proud husband & dog dad | Gaymer & geek | Wildlife fan | Pronouns: he/him
Born and raised in Blacksburg, Virginia I've studied, lived, and worked around the world, including Washington D.C., Boston, Amsterdam, New York City, and the Bay Area. I currently live, work, and hike outside Denver, Colorado with my husband Chase, a data scientist, and our two dogs.
At heart, I'm a knowledge guy: I'm interested most of all in how we learn, share, and grow as individuals and as communities.
My professional experience in customer education & learning experience spans 20+ years, including academic, commercial, technical, and creative fields. I've worked for world-class publishers, including Oxford University Press and Pearson Education. And I’ve designed content strategies and built learning experiences for financial and high-tech corporations, including BOK Financial, Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, and Tata Communications. I have also built and led Customer Education, Product Training, Certification, and Learning Services teams at Autodesk, Vendavo, HubSpot, and now at Contentful.
In my free time, when I'm not wandering or gardening outdoors, I can be found inside either gaming (Diablo 4, mostly) or reading and writing poetry.
My first small book of poems, So Far Afield (Nomadic Press 2017, now distributed by Black Lawrence Press) was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry in 2018; and my second chapbook In the Year of Our Making and Unmaking was selected by Carl Phillips for the 2020 Frontier Digital Chapbook Poetry Prize. Also, from time to time, I review books of poetry for the New York Journal of Books (watch this space), and I’m a reader for the Beloit Poetry Journal.
I guess I’ve always loved words and how they shape our world. Like Walt Whitman, I believe we “contain multitudes.” And we can all do better by each other. In fact, our future depends on it.
If any of what I’ve said here speaks to you, then I hope to hear from you soon.