He is a licensed architect and contractor in California. Paul has a Ph.D. in Education and Human Resource Studies from Colorado State University, and an M.B.A., a Bachelor of Architecture, and a Bachelor of Science in Construction Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He was president of a design-build development firm in Modesto, CA in the 1980s. He began implementing Bluebeam Revu in a freshman construction management class three years ago, and he is fostering its implementation further in Cal Poly’s CM curriculum.