After serving in the United States Army and becoming a Desert Storm Veteran, he completed his Bachelors in Business Administration at Louisiana Tech University and his Masters in Business Administration at Grambling State University. He then went on to earn his Ph.D. in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior from the University of Kentucky as well as to complete a post doctorate in Human Resources Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. He currently teaches courses in the Jindal School at both the Ph.D. level and MBA levels in the area of human resource management and organizational behavior.