sports, business, learning, family

Filled with much failure, I ended up graduating with a 1.6 GPA.
I filled a majority of my time with work, whether that was Jimmy Johns delivery, golf cart washing, dealership car cleaning.

I learned to fail and rebuild. I used my learnings from Bob Rhorman auto dealership car cleaning and launched what was at the time a novel concept of, we come to you auto detail.

No easy task here.

I jumped straight into the work world after high school with no intention to go to college.

My mind changed after a year and a half of construction labor 9.5 hours a day; picking up garbage for all contractors and subcontractors on site.

Pellissippi Community College
Economics
I started my general education classes while working in the field and was fortunate to be able to do both and stack my learnings in both work and school.

University of Tennessee Knoxville
Supply Chain Management & Business Statistics [double major]
After 1.5 years at Pellissippi I entered into the Haslam College of Business and focused on learning what I hypothesized would be fundamental building blocks of enterprise in this new world. Again, I was fortunate to be able to work while going to school and by this time I was in the office setting and learning from the great leaders at the Southland Companies in Knoxville TN.

I developed internal tools for leaders in the company as I was learning some of the toolkit in my classes and often this gave me a great environment to ask any of the competent professors I had questions that would help me in the development of the tools we were building at Southland.

I got my Collateral in Information Management and this gave me a toolkit to formalize the data architecture I had been deploying and therefore optimize the cycle time of my updates.

Babson College
Masters in Entrepreneurship
A beautiful environment filled with bright minds and ambition. I made friendships and connections here that will last a lifetime and some, generations. I can not overstate the impact this place had on me. I have a unique mind and it takes other unique authentic individuals to excite me and match magnetically; the number of enterprising individuals in such a small student body (~2000 grad & undergrad) is remarkable.
Never in my life have I had the opportunity to interact with so many different global individuals and cultures. The number of global trips now on my ‘need to visit’ list is a treasure I hold dear to my heart.

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