Credentials & Experience

• Author of multiple novels, short stories, novellas, academic curricula, and major ghostwritten family histories
• Former publisher and managing editor of National Guard Review (1996–2003); interviewed dozens of congressional representatives, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presidential candidates, corporate executives, and soldiers on three continents
• Former member of West Virginia’s America250 Commission
• Launched and operated educational nonprofit for six years
• Consulted for major universities on veterans, entrepreneurship, and academic programs
• U.S. Army veteran with a B.A. in Political Science from Marshall University, and an M.A. in History from UNC Wilmington
• Married for over 34 year and lives in West Virginia – Yes, that’s his dog

Most recently, he completed a comprehensive multi-generational family history for former U.S. Congressman David McKinley covering the family’s establishment in Ireland and America from 1650 to 1783.