He currently serves as the Director and Associate Dean of the School of Art & Design, which consists of roughly 1,000 BFA students and 60 faculty and staff. From 2013 to 2016 he served as the founding director of UW-Stout’s game design program, which is ranked as one of the top game design programs in the country by the Princeton Review. Additionally, student projects from his classes and mentorship have won awards such as 1st Place at the 2013 E3 College Game Competition and 1st Place in Visuals at the 2017 GDC Intel University Showcase.