His research topic areas of interest are in the emergency services, particularly, the lived-experiences of police, fire, emergency medical and other crisis workers. He is also interested in pursuing victimological studies using the phenomenological approach. His professional background includes 29 years of emergency work in law enforcement, fire, emergency medical, and hazardous materials response. (He graduated from the SLCC police academy session #5 in 1989.) His theoretical approach to emergency management and leadership are based on Existential-Humanistic perspectives of the human person. He has a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (2012) from Saybrook University in San Francisco, California.