The high notes (and a few crises):

• 1995 — played first show at Fitzgerald’s in Houston
• 1997 — selected to attend a visual arts magnet high school
• 1999 — landed a job doing surveys for voter/consumer marketing research firm
• 2000 — survived Y2K, awarded scholarship to Glassell School of Art (MFAH)
• 2002 — studied audio and visual production at local community college, worked as a designer and audio engineer
• 2003 — second band wins national JBL/Guitar Center contest; records first album at the legendary Cherokee Studios in Hollywood, CA. Kept a day job as pre-press tech at a commercial printing house.
• 2004 — first of two albums released with the band Jack in the Pulpit
• 2005 — kicked out of a studio by Beyonce’s producer for having a good idea at the wrong time
• 2006 — first full-time design job at a web design firm
• 2007 — enrolled in 4-year university; major in Government, Minor in Communications
• 2008 — survived housing crash, started as Designer on university marketing team
• 2009 — launched a church; led music and design, served in strategic planning
• 2010 — started writing economics blogs for AEI, one of the nation’s most influential policy think tanks
• 2011 — graduated cum laude, enrolled in MA program, promoted to Art Director & Brand Strategist
• 2012 — mentored under the senior ad exec behind several iconic national campaigns of the 1980s-90s
• 2013 — studied in the living room of one of the world’s top experts on constitutional design
• 2014 — earned Masters degree in Political Science
• 2015 — served as Senior Designer at Academy Sports & Outdoors
• 2016 — joined Polymath as Communications Strategist, later Director of Strategy
• 2017 — became a dad
• 2018 — moved to Austin, TX
• 2019 — parented a foster child
• 2020 — survived Covid, released solo album as Post Ephemera
• 2023 — TBD

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