About

Five years ago I moved with my family to Fishers for the roundabouts — and sure, great schools and budding tech hub too. Coming from the west St. Louis suburbs, I arrived to start a business data analytics practice for a local software services company. This year makes 20 years that I’ve worked in data services, mostly in health care. Currently I live in Fishers’ Nickel Plate District and work as a Solutions Architect for phData, a nationwide data consulting firm.

 

My colleagues consider me a great listener who asks good questions and then thinks deeply and creatively about complex problems before suggesting pragmatic solutions. My friends, brothers, and four children consider me to be fiercely loyal, while at the same time warm, kind, and fun.

 

Although this is my first time running for public office, I’m no stranger to corporate governance in large hospital systems and Fortune 50 enterprises. Consulting in enterprise data architecture, I regularly collaborate with client executives who share different perspectives about how to improve their technology strategy and business performance. I help setup data governance teams that establish transparency, quality, and common understandings of how a company is performing. And, I organize enterprise teams that bring departments as different as finance and marketing to the same table to create common understandings of their data semantics. (Everyone knows semantics is the only thing more controversial than politics and religion).

 

Originally, I was born and raised in Charleston, SC, and went to Covenant College on beautiful Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, earning a BA double majoring in History and Philosophy & Religion. In St. Louis, I started working in health care data analytics and at the same time studying to become a pastor, earning a Master of Divinity (M.Div) from Covenant Seminary. After using both my data and pastoral skills to help start a new church in South City that is still thriving, and then working bi-vocationally as an assistant pastor out in the ‘burbs, I decided to move back into the business world and focus on data.

 

Since moving to Fishers, I’ve attend St. Peter’s United Church of Christ, an open and affirming congregation in Carmel, where I currently serve leading our technology team. My sense of personal identity, optimism about our common future, sense of civic duty, and passion for social justice are empowered by my faith. At the same time, I completely reject Christian nationalism and am committed to servant leadership in a pluralistic city where everyone, regardless of opinion or identity, can influence government, feel safe, thrive, and contribute.