He received his PhD in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from Texas Tech in 2009. He primarily teaches the undergraduate tax curriculum at DePaul and his research has been accepted for publication by Public Finance Review, a major international journal in the area of tax policy and applied econometrics. He has also taught accounting information systems and financial reporting, and published in the Review of Business of Information Systems, Research in Accounting Regulation, the Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy, the Journal of Applied Business Research, and Accounting and Taxation.​