He taught both freshmen and sophomores in the Introduction to Engineering Design and the Principles of Engineering courses. Under his tutelage, his classes grew from 12 students during the initial year to full capacity in the following and succeeding years. With his recommendations, most of his students went on to earn degrees in engineering and build successful careers in the engineering disciplines of their choice.

With a career that spans 50 years, he has been a journeyman carpenter, an adventurous seaman, an aerospace, mechanical, civil, and manufacturing engineer, a home builder, a respected university adjunct professor, and a popular high school teacher. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1972 to the office of priest and in 1983 to the office of elder in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1985 he was set apart as the pastor of the Norman, Oklahoma, congregation.

He speaks four languages, has lived in a foreign country, and has traveled to many more. He has had such diverse experiences as being part of an archaeological dig at the ruins of Corinth, Greece, surviving a hurricane in the North Atlantic, traipsing through the jungles of Yucatan to partially uncovered Mayan ruins, and escaping the pursuit of enemy aircraft with the intent to shoot down his air crew’s plane. He is steeped in physics, chemistry, metaphysics, and the cosmology of the world of spirit. He has many stories to share. And now, he shares these stories as an author who can translate the teachings of Jesus into the language of science.