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Born in Utah, I graduated from BYU-Idaho with a BA in Communications and a focus in Organizational Communication in 2009. During my final semester of college I spent time and money developing a marketing website to introduce local businesses to students, only to be crushed at launch by security updates to the base programming, and a month of evaluating two startup possibilities with a serial entrepreneur in Virginia.

My wife and I both earned our Woodbadge beads during college, and she graduated with a social work degree, before we ended up relocating back to my pre-mission hometown in rural Kentucky as unemployment was booming. 

With local unemployment over 25%, I ended up working as a Temporary Worker in factories an hour away, before finding a solid footing with Toyotetsu where I stayed for the next 10 years.

Once converted from a temporary, I quickly became the department clerk, and tracked both maintenance and departmental training, internal ISO audits, manpower reports and justification, and KPI's while helping Team Leads, Group Leads, Assistant Managers, and the Manager with their duties and paperwork. I also went on multiple trips to a sister factory to help with a corporate turnaround including an intervention with their forklift training program and documentation, and ended up transferring there as a Production Control Specialist.

As a Production Control Specialist, I was tasked with working with a tough vendor that was regularly shorting us, then tackling our low performance secondary production for end use customer repair parts, bringing it up to our top performing location in North America. Next, I was assigned to an ERP implementation team for our factory where we worked across departments to roll out factory wide integration, all the while maintaining my other duties.

Then, while attending a sister's funeral, my father asked me to run his startup business, where I spent most of the last four years as the VP of Operations doing almost everything as a one man shop.