An air force brat, I lived in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee (twice), Texas, Alaska, and Utah. I was the eldest of four children.

Graduating from Smyrna High School outside of Nashville, I started college at Weber State in Ogden, Utah, studied Broadcast Engineering with The Cleveland Institute of Electronics, and went to New York City to study audio engineering at the Institute of Audio Research. Eventually I completed both my Bachelor of Communication and an M.B.A. in International Marketing at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah.

I met my soulmate, Pepper, in college. We have one son, Dusty. Yes, Skip, Pepper, and Dusty sounds like a Mattel Doll Family.

Early jobs include draftsman, entertainer, audio recording engineer, and lighting technician working concerts for The Osmonds, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, The Kingston Trio, Uriah Heep, and many others. Declining a job engineering tours for The Osmonds, John Denver, and Neil Diamond, I moved into video -- commercials, documentaries, and PSAs, including an interview of Barney Clark, the first recipient of an artificial heart and a videotaped deposition of Howard Hughes' physician.

After a special project with G.E. Finance, I worked nearly 15 years for Redman Movies & Stories and General Electric supporting dozens of television series like "Fire Fly", "Everwood", "Touched By An Angel", "Walker, Texas Ranger", "America's Most Wanted", and an episode of "ER", many mini-series, such as Stephen King's "The Stand", plus numerous MOWs (Movie-Of-The-Week), and feature films, like "The Matrix: Revolutions", "The Matrix: Reloaded", "Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, & Blonde", "City Slickers II", "Hulk", "Men In Black II", "Titanic", "Dr. Doolittle II", "Armageddon", "The Grinch", "Shawshank Redemption", "Dumb & Dumber", "Courage Under Fire", "Interview With A Vampire", "Con Air", "A Beautiful Mind," and countless films for Disney including the much acclaimed "High School Musical 1, 2, and 3", and numerous lower-budgeted features and shorts, plus hundreds of documentaries, infomercials and local, national and international commercials.

GE engaged me for the 2002 Winter Olympics, and kept me on to work with Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros and other Hollywood studios. And to train and counsel GEER staff across North and South America, Australia, Italy, Germany, England, and China about the film industry.

More than 20 years ago I start teaching marketing, public relations, sales, sales management, creative advertising and other undergrad and postgrad business courses for The University of Phoenix.

14 years ago we returned to Ogden to tend to my aging Mother and Mother-In-Law. Bette Davis was right, "Getting old ain't for sissies." This meant becoming a Contract Negotiator for the Department of Defense. So if you need a keyboard that can survive a nuclear blast or your F-16 needs parts, call me.

An air force brat, I lived in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee (twice), Texas, Alaska, and Utah. I was the eldest of four children.

Graduating from Smyrna High School outside of Nashville, I started college at Weber State in Ogden, Utah, studied Broadcast Engineering with The Cleveland Institute of Electronics, and went to New York City to study audio engineering at the Institute of Audio Research. Eventually I completed both my Bachelor of Communication and an M.B.A. in International Marketing at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah.

I met my soulmate, Pepper, in college. We have one son, Dusty. Yes, Skip, Pepper, and Dusty sounds like a Mattel Doll Family.

Early jobs include draftsman, entertainer, audio recording engineer, and lighting technician working concerts for The Osmonds, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, The Kingston Trio, Uriah Heep, and many others. Declining a job engineering tours for The Osmonds, John Denver, and Neil Diamond, I moved into video -- commercials, documentaries, and PSAs, including an interview of Barney Clark, the first recipient of an artificial heart and a videotaped deposition of Howard Hughes' physician.

After a special project with G.E. Finance, I worked nearly 15 years for Redman Movies & Stories and General Electric supporting dozens of television series like "Fire Fly", "Everwood", "Touched By An Angel", "Walker, Texas Ranger", "America's Most Wanted", and an episode of "ER", many mini-series, such as Stephen King's "The Stand", plus numerous MOWs (Movie-Of-The-Week), and feature films, like "The Matrix: Revolutions", "The Matrix: Reloaded", "Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, & Blonde", "City Slickers II", "Hulk", "Men In Black II", "Titanic", "Dr. Doolittle II", "Armageddon", "The Grinch", "Shawshank Redemption", "Dumb & Dumber", "Courage Under Fire", "Interview With A Vampire", "Con Air", "A Beautiful Mind," and countless films for Disney including the much acclaimed "High School Musical 1, 2, and 3", and numerous lower-budgeted features and shorts, plus hundreds of documentaries, infomercials and local, national and international commercials.

GE engaged me for the 2002 Winter Olympics, and kept me on to work with Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros and other Hollywood studios. And to train and counsel GEER staff across North and South America, Australia, Italy, Germany, England, and China about the film industry.

More than 20 years ago I start teaching marketing, public relations, sales, sales management, creative advertising and other undergrad and postgrad business courses for The University of Phoenix.

14 years ago we returned to Ogden to tend to my aging Mother and Mother-In-Law. Bette Davis was right, "Getting old ain't for sissies." This meant becoming a Contract Negotiator for the Department of Defense. So if you need a keyboard that can survive a nuclear blast or your F-16 needs parts, call me.