About Me

I'm traveling the pathways of the poor and the ambitious and I'm trying to find some friends along the way,

I share my dreams with some but they still see them as fictitious though I'm working towards 'em every single day,

The road is seldom straight and there's some limping in my gait but Imma cross the finish line and that's a fact,

I'm bloody but unbowed and you can beat my body up but I can promise that my spirit stays intact.

-Me

I’m originally from a neighborhood in the northeast suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio called Hazelwood. Despite facing hardships early on in life, I was able to leave Hazelwood for Dartmouth College where I earned my undergraduate degree in English Creative Writing in 2011. I was first introduced to Salesforce right after college, while living and working in Orlando, FL. During that year, I earned two Salesforce certifications, and also self-published my first book.

In 2012, I moved to Los Angeles, California where I began working as a freelance Salesforce business analyst and aspiring sports writer. That fall, I started writing as an NFL contributor for Bleacher Report and also started freelance consulting as a Salesforce business analyst until December 2013 when I accepted the role as Director of CRM and Digital Products for the Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015.

As a pivotal member of the games organizing committee (GOC), I held that position for almost two years while still doing some consulting on the side. After that, I focused on nonprofit consulting until May 2017 when I brought all Salesforce projects to a halt to produce a once-in-a-lifetime story that I was gifted with. That June, I lived between Baltimore, MD and Cincinnati, OH conducting interviews, doing research and investigating the life story of Anthony Hollie.

Unsure of how to make documentaries profitable, and having to restart the process of getting projects, I was forced to move back to Cincinnati in October 2017 and get my shit together. During that time, I stayed busy by co-authoring former world champion bodybuilder Franco Santoriello’s life story while prospecting Salesforce projects. What seemed like a setback certainly wasn’t, though, because during my time in Cincinnati, I reconnected with an old friend’s sister who is soon-to-be my wife..

I moved back to Los Angeles in May 2018, after rebuilding my client list, and have been consulting remotely ever since. MaryLauren joined me in Los Angeles in August 2018, after finishing her professorship at the University of Cincinnati (and it’s Dr. MaryLauren to you). Around that time, I also started writing my first solo novel, Local, California, which I’m super excited about but has gotten de-prioritized with COVID-19 and getting married and all that.

MaryLauren and I now live in Madison, Wisconsin with our two dogs, Gatsby and Hamlet.