About

I am a Division Vice President at NTN Buzztime. I have a stacked team that works hard and loves what they do. Smart, creative people. I love what we’re doing down in Carlsbad right now to shake things up, but don’t expect too much behind-the-scenes talk about that over here. We’re publicly traded, albeit a small company. Wouldn’t be prudent to give you insider info. Or legal.

(On that note, all posts on this site are mine and mine alone. They do not represent my past, current, or future employers’ opinions, strategies, or positions.)

Business aside, I’m a 16-year husband to a superb, handcrafted photographer whom I met in historic Olathe, KS. (How historic? We gave you the Mahaffie Farmstead. We gave you Garmin. We gave you Darren Sproles. And Rush Limbaugh once made reference to us.) I was an Eagle, she was a Falcon. That “she,” Lori, is everything to me. I’ll get weepy if I go on too much, but I wouldn’t have accomplished half as much as I have in life without her faith and support. And did I mention she’s a superb photographer? She’s also getting started with Twitter; I’d be much obliged if you followed her and helped her learn the ropes. Oh, and because she, too, is filled with awesomeness, she drives a Swagger Wagon.

I’m also a father of four boys, one daughter. As many people say, “What? Are you Catholic, or Mormon? lol” Yeah, I’m the second one. That’s five children we’ve burdened the world with. Actually, we love them and don’t know what life would be like without them. They’re headstrong, confident, opinionated, sometimes moody. Out of left field, those genes came from.

Some day, when I’m a famous public speaker, with an overly simplistic book out on attitude or overcoming your fears or whatever, one who regales audiences with sometimes poignant, sometimes motivational, sometimes cute, sometimes meandering, always heartwarming stories about raising these five children, you can say you “knew” me back in the day.

You can follow me on Twitter if you really want to. If we hit it off by email you can friend me on Facebook (but don’t hold your breath on that one, I don’t use Facebook for schlepping business). I’ve done a little sprucing up of my Google profile. And because it matches up so nicely with what we’re doing at Buzztime, I’m rolling with Foursquare.

You might be surprised to know that despite my inability to be stuffy and serious, I’ve spoken to many groups on a variety of topics in my past: sales, goal setting, marketing, and — like everyone else — a bit of social media thrown in for good measure. Maybe I’ll have one of these sessions video”taped” at some point. And I’d be happy to do that for your organization or team, too, and we’d have a seriously good time with a lot of laughter, but it’s got to really be an exciting opportunity and work with my already hectic schedule and demands.

Have your people contact my people. But you know, whatever.