Professor. Researcher.
Business practitioner.
A career built across the classroom and the operating world — with a focus on helping students and organizations turn ideas into capability.
Business education grounded in practice.
I am an Assistant Professor-Visiting in the Department of Commerce at the University of West Florida, with more than 17 years of university teaching experience and more than two decades of private-sector leadership across sales, operations, construction, supply chain, and business development.
My academic work spans supply chain resilience and geopolitical reconfiguration, transportation and autonomous logistics, space logistics, artificial intelligence and human relevance, business and marketing education, professional sales education, consumer behavior, and small-business strategy.
In the classroom, I focus heavily on experiential learning, employer engagement, AI-enabled practice, applied projects, student professional development, and career readiness.
A Career Across Business & Academia
University Teaching Since 2009
Courses across professional selling, supply chain, purchasing, transportation, marketing, management, leadership, project management, and business foundations.
20+ Years of Leadership
Experience in sales leadership, supply chain, operations, construction, healthcare services, business development, and entrepreneurship.
Applied Scholarship
An active research portfolio focused on questions where business, technology, infrastructure, and human capability intersect.