Professional Background

1982 (9 years old)

I am fortunate enough to be accepted into Isely Alternative School, which is the city's first public school for gifted students.

1984 (11)

My mom buys one of the earliest IBM PCs, and I write my first computer program.

1987 (14)

My grandpa teaches Dale Carnegie courses, and he lets me take his personal and professional development course.
I get a summer job working for a Dale Carnegie classmate doing data entry at his engineering firm.

1988 (15)

I am accepted into the city's International Baccalaureate Program.

1989 (16)

I take my first college course (trigonometry) as a visiting high school student.

1990 (17)

I get the opportunity to graduate a semester early from high school, and I immediately begin college.

1996 (23)

Excited by the recent launch of the internet, I start my first business (Access Computers & Upgrades) building websites and custom PCs.

2001 (28)

I complete a degree in Philosophy with a minor in Math.

2004 (31)

I get my first professional job as a researcher at a real estate appraisal firm.

2005 (32)

I complete a Master's in Sociology with a focus on social statistics.
I am hired by a hotel developer named Jack DeBoer—founder of Residence Inn, HYATT House, Candlewood Suites, WaterWalk, and WoodSpring Suites. I build the Research & Project Planning Department at Woodspring Suites.

2006 (33)

In my spare time, I start buying rundown houses and learning how to do the remodeling myself.

2008 (35)

I am hired as the real estate analyst for Wichita State University's Center for Real Estate.

2009 (36)

I am given the opportunity to work on my first apartment project as the co-developer of a project that converts a historic high school into apartments.

2011 (38)

I am hired to create a development plan for an 80-acre business park. As part of that plan, I built a 216-unit apartment complex, based on an automated project planning tool that I developed.

2012 (39)

I lead a community initiative called the Kansas Rural Housing Coalition, and we lead an affordable housing conference with the Kansas Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

2014 (41)

I volunteer to create a housing study for every city and county in Kansas, and I create an automated process that generates 700+ reports totalling over 60,000 pages.

2015 (42)

I use advanced research and analysis methods to create a prototype for affordable housing.

2016 (43)

I build an affordable housing proof of concept, which features downtown apartments starting at $750 per month.
In that same year, I start COMCARE Community Partners, which is a public-private partnership with Sedgwick County to support the area's largest mental health and substance abuse program

2019 (46)

I start the Civic Health Coalition—a nonprofit that uses technology to help solve social problems (like affordable housing).

2020 (47)

While self-isolating during COVID, I begin studying artificial intelligence (AI) and realize the deep impact it would have on society.

2021 (48)

When the pandemic ends, I move to Silicon Valley to focus full-time on becoming an expert in applied AI.

2022 (49)

I launch the website insource.ai to focus on AI-driven process automation for businesses and nonprofits.

2023 (50)

The advancement of AI begins to accelerate after the release of ChatGPT, and my son starts working with me to find applications for AI.

2024 (51)

I partner with my son and daughter to launch Insource Ai Inc—a company focused on applied AI.

2025 (52)

We successfully automate software development, which allows us to work with businesses and nonprofits to build AI-driven custom software solutions that we can deliver in days.