While attending Boston College, began working as a recording engineer and producer at Bristol Studios, Fisheye Music Production, and The Music Room.

Worked on first web and print design projects, plus a little PR for the BC Music Department: graveyard recording sessions, animated GIFs, event flyers, press releases, and CD jewel case designs paid college tuition.    

Graduated from Boston College with a BA in Philosophy in one hand, 3 years of media production experience in the other, and 87 pages of a youthfully-pretentious book aimed at saving Humanity stored inside a greyscale-screened MacBook. Moved to New York.

Turns out philosophy doesn’t pay the bills. Began teaching audio and multimedia production at SAE Institute’s first US campus in New York City.

Co-founded first business in New Jersey, JLS Media Group, Inc. Chopped off hair to more easily manage mornings after countless nights crashing on the studio lounge couch. A local artist made a painting called, “Dream To Sleep”, which he claimed was a representation of that which I needed most during the first year of JLS. It still hangs in my bedroom.

Offered position of Campus Director for SAE’s first west coast location. Sold JLS, packed the car and moved from NYC to LA in 6 days – the movers took 52. Thusly began SAE Los Angeles: a laptop, a suitcase, and an air mattress. Nevertheless, a location was secured and state approval to operate earned. Designed and built the campus, staffed from the ground up.

Promoted to National Marketing Manager for SAE, USA. Managed national campaigns, advised regional marketing efforts for 6 campuses, and began self-taught programming in an effort to centralize lead management for all campuses. Picked up and moved again. This time to San Francisco to help build a new campus in SoMa.

Extremely tired. Decided to leave SAE and try something new. While enjoying some time off, SAE UK called asking if I’d like to go to London for awhile and manage marketing over there. It sounded interesting.

Moved to England. Set up in London as UK Marketing Manager challenged with coordinating the efforts of all campuses and getting their online marketing up to speed. Also facilitated the global re-launch of SAE Online with the Amsterdam campus, and advising EU campus directors on search engine marketing for their schools. Traded a Tube commute in London for a bike ride along the Thames commute in Oxford (much more pleasant) to complete the UK digital marketing renovation.

Plot point. Thus far, worked as an audio engineer, producer, graphic & web designer, teacher, supervisor, campus director, and marketing manager in: Boston, NYC, Paterson, LA, San Francisco, London & Oxford… but had nothing considered “home” or “family”. Moved back to California to figure out where to go next. Nothing figured, so decided to stop the Quixote quest for promotions and 2.5 kids and stayed put on the Central Coast in hopes of creating an income base that would allow more time to ponder Life and less time chasing what I was told it should be.

The admissions CRM progressively expands and becomes poliSCHOOL, which is first offered as a stand alone SaaS for vocational schools. It quickly becomes poliARC’s primary service.

There are no words other than, “I’ve been sayin’ it for years!”  … I should have finished that book. Thankfully, we can say that our previous and influx of new poliSCHOOL clients were very well-prepared for remote learning, because, well… poliSCHOOL. As such, we all trudged through the social and political nightmare together as a pretty darn good team. Staff, training and internal systems expand, and features focus mostly on supporting continuing education courses as well as “choose your own ending” multi-course programs.