He has a teaching certificate from Mount Mercy College, an MBA-Finance from Indiana University and BS-Zoology from the University of Wisconsin. David previously served 14 years serving as Curator and Education & Outreach Coordinator at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History. He lives on a small acreage with his wife (and accomplished sloth-digger) Lynette where they are growing a garden, a tall-grass prairie, a sloth park/arboretum of almost 300 different kinds of trees and shrubs and too many deer.