I initially started my career in emergency care as a volunteer firefighter in Pensacola FL at The Ferry Pass Volunteer Fire Department in 1989. While with the fire department I became certified as a DOT-First Responder and began doing rescue and EMS work with the fire department.

Later I enrolled in nursing school and dual-enrolled in the EMT program. Later, I received my Paramedic certificate and began working part-time for the local EMS department while still volunteering for the fire department, and working part-time as a staff RN in the Emergency Department.

During my years as a staff RN I've worked in various settings including: Emergency Departments, Critical Care/Intensive Care/Progressive Care Units and Orthopedic/Neurology Units.

Later, I continued going to school part-time while working to complete my Bachelor's Degree in Nursing and subsequently my Master's Degree in Nursing – both awarded from the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. After graduation I then went on to obtain national board certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner.

After spending time on the Florida Gulf Coast in Pensacola, my wife and I moved to Greenville SC. Here I began working in a Level I University-Teaching Hospital, in the Emergency Trauma Center. My work here includes being one of the lead providers on the ED Stroke Response Team, and Congestive Heart Failure/observation unit in the ED as well as seeing and treating patients in the main ED and Fast Track areas.

I've continued to work on my post-graduate education at Clemson University taking classes towards a Post-Master's Certificate in Nursing Education. This curriculum has included courses in educational needs assessments and testing & evaluation design and principles.

I try to stay very involved in my professional organizations including the Emergency Nurses Association. In the ENA I've served as local chapter vice-president and president. I also sit on the South Carolina EMS Advisory Council as a representative of the ENA. I still continue to work part-time as a Paramedic for the local EMS service. Lastly I am a member of the South Carolina Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) under direction of the US. Department of

Health & Human Services and the National Disaster Medical Service (NDMS) as an intermittent federal employee.

I am also an active member of Nursing's National Honor Society: Sigma Theta Tau, since

being inducted as a community nursing leader in 2004.

I teach many classes in Emergency and Critical Care as well as EMS. Currently I am a credentialed First Aid, BLS and ACLS instructor under the American Heart Association. I am also credentialed as an instructor, director, and faculty for the ENA's Trauma Nursing (TNCC) and Emergency Pediatric Nursing (ENPC) courses. I have earned both BCEN credentials: the Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) and Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN).

My teaching has taken me to several locations throughout the South East including Florida, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington D.C.

I have also been a guest speaker and presenter at conferences and seminars throughout

the South Eastern region.

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