I am a passionate follower of Christ, husband, father, technologist, leader, manager, and entrepreneur. It is my joy to serve as Lead Director of Information Technology for Resurrection, a United Methodist Church with 8 locations in the Kansas City area.  My office is at the main location in Leawood, Kansas.

I have led Resurrection’s IT Department since 2003. We are also the IT department for Saint Paul School of Theology. Our capable team supports more than 1200 users with technology sprawling across 13 buildings in 9 locations in 3 states. Read all about our infrastructure here. My credo for managing the department is: “our default answer is ‘yes’.”

My degree is in computer engineering (an electrical engineering specialization) from Iowa State University in 1984. I have been a software developer, then lead developer, project manager, executive manager, and founder of four companies.

My wife, Laura, is a Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) pastor and was the planter of Living Water Christian Church in Parkville, Missouri, where I ran sound and graphics for worship and taught verse-by-verse adult Bible study for 17 years.

Our daughter, Bethany, was a missionary in the Caribbean for 4 years and now works for the joint global missions agency of the Disciples and the United Church of Christ.  My dad, brother, sister, sister-in-law, uncle, cousin, and niece were/are all Disciple pastors too.  It’s the family business!  Our son, Rob, worked previously on Resurrection’s Tech Arts staff and now sells coffee for a local specialty roaster.

I participate in the grassroots Church IT Network. If you do church IT, then you need to connect with the Church IT Network. It’s the coolest thing ever.