Thanks for visiting my site. This page is basically a small biography of myself. If you know me already, none of this content will be exciting to you. If not, enjoy the rest of the page. I simply cover different areas of my life that are important to me and try to paint a picture of what my life is like from a spiritual, personal, and entrepreneurial perspective.
I am a business owner by day, entrepreneur by night, husband and father 24/7. I never sleep… almost.
I’m originally from Delphi, IN where I started the first 22 years of my life. My family owned a cottage on the Tippecanoe river where I spent most of my summer days swimming, fishing, and being a child. During my foundational years, I was homeschooled by my mother, Pam, who courageously took on myself and my two other siblings in the educational endeavors. 7th grade was my first year of Public school. I had no troubles fitting in because I already knew most of my classmates through little league, football, and other activities that my mother would include us in. I thank God everyday for my stable upbringing in my formidable years.
My high school years were great for me. I was an active member of our select choir group, varsity athlete in football, baseball, and basketball, and a member of the art club. I was busy and active which was good for me. My attention span was uber short! As post-high school rapidly approached, I struggled to find a calling or direction in life. After spending two years at Vincennes University, I transferred to Purdue University in W. Lafayette, IN where I majored in Fine Art and had focus on graphic design/Illustration. After I graduated, I was able to get a job right out of college into the world of publishing at John Wiley & Sons Publishing in Fishers, IN.
As my career progressed, I decided to learn more about the business world. In 2013 I enrolled in the International MBA program at Taylor University in Upland, IN. My M.B.A. from Taylor University has allowed me to cultivate a business mindset that seeks to grow professionally and personally. Combined with my undergrad degree in Fine Arts from Purdue University, I am able to creatively and effectively design programs, start new businesses, think outside the box, and produce content and products that fulfill specific needs.
I began my career at Wiley Publishing as a Technical Illustrator developing graphics for the Dummies books. Open to change, I accepted an offer to get into animation at Oxygen Education, an e-Learning company specializing in workforce education. Seizing an opportunity to start my own business, I started Möbius Learning with a colleague of mine in 2010. These last few years have been some of the most challenging and rewarding times of my career and the experiences I have been apart of have helped me develop as a person and a businessman.
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Position: Technical Illustrator
Description: I started my career at Wiley Publishing as a Technical Illustrator developing media for the For Dummies™ series and the Teach Yourself Visually™ series.
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Position: Sr. Graphics Developer
Description: Developed e-learning content with Flash CS3, Flash Player, ActionScript 2 and 3 and other Adobe related products. Managed projects without compromising efficiency or quality. Worked closely with all clients to create budgets and timeliness for projects. Contributed to the development of internal processes and work-flow.
Featured Clients: Harley Davidson, DMG/Mori Seiki Academy, & Purdue University
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Position: Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Description: As co-founder and managing partner of Möbius Learning, I am responsible for managing the daily affairs of the company and seeking out new ventures for the vitality of the company. I also oversee the company culture, product development, new client acquisitions, and client relations.
Featured Clients: Pearson Education, The Henry Ford Museum, DMG/Mori Seiki Academy, Purdue University, WINS Academy, and more…
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If the goal of education is to improve your life, enhance your status, earn some accolades, or make the world a better place, you have missed the point, these are all byproducts of education. Education is meaningless if it does not ultimately lead us to a greater understanding of who we are and who God is. I value education not because it is a means to itself but because it helps us understand this world that God has created. If God is eternal, that means that I will eternally be learning about Him and his world, hence, my self-titled label as a life long learner.
Years: 1979-1991
Degree: Foundations for Life
Years: 1992-1998
Degree: Diploma
Sports: Football, Baseball, Track, & Basketball
Activities: Choir & Art Club
Years: 2000-2004
Degree: Bachelor’s in Fine Arts
Focus: Graphic Design
Years: 2012-2014
Degree: M.B.A. Master’s in Business Administration
Focus: International Business
Here is a non-exhaustive list of skills that I have either learned in school or taught myself over the years that have helped me become who I am today. I do not claim to have great skills in anything, only a burning sense of enjoyment trying to learn to do everything well.
A rich view of God and life will naturally instill a deep sense of creativity and joy in every aspect of life. It’s only natural that I want to create like the ultimate creator, God! This section title could easily be replaced with, “things I love to do”.
“What a staggering thought! Just as we could never secure justification by our own best efforts, so it is true that we can never increase personal sanctification by our own best efforts. Yes, “The just shall live by faith,” initially and continually!”
“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
“The quest for God doesn’t begin until conversion.”
“Are you a witness for the Lord, and are you just now in danger? Then remember that you are immortal ’til your work is done.”
“There isn’t anything that comes out of the mouth of a drunk that wasn’t there in the first place.”
“If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but YOURSELF.”
“We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker’s, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.”
“Desperate times call for faithful men, and not for careful men. The careful men come later and write the biographies of the faithful men lauding them for their courage.”
“The most important quality leaders can demonstrate is not intelligence, a forceful personality, glibness, diligence, vision, administrative skills, decisiveness, courage, humor, tact, or any other similar natural attribute. Those all play a part, but the most desirable quality for any leader is integrity.”
“Wanted: Gifted volunteers for difficult service in the local expression of the Kingdom of God. Motivation to serve should be obedience to God, gratitude, gladness, forgiveness, humility, and love. Service will rarely be glorious. Temptation to quit place of service will sometimes be strong. Volunteers must be faithful in spite of long hours, little of nor visible results, and possibly no recognition except from God in eternity.”
“The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same… This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians. They have always believed the word of the Bible. But we scientists did not expect to find evidence for an abrupt beginning because we have had, until recently, such extraordinary success in tracing the chain of cause and effect backward in time… At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
“The church itself is not made up of natural “friends.” It is made up of natural enemies. What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together, not because they form a natural collocation, but because they have all been saved by Jesus Christ and owe him a common allegiance. In the light of this common allegiance, in the light of the fact that they have all been loved by Jesus himself, they commit themselves to doing what he says—and he commands them to love one another. In this light, they are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus’ sake.”
“What we fail to recognize is that God does not simply judge at the end of history, He also executes His judgement in history in real time. He judges us for sin with our sin.”
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