He is a subject matter expert on the Affordable Care Act of 2010 as it applies to commercial enterprises, and is a frequent speaker on the subject to business associations. He served on the staff of Idaho's Governor John Evans in the eighties and served as a member of the Kansas City Missouri School Board from 19906-2000 where he played a key role in extracting the State of Missouri from a decades long desegregation case, saving Missouri taxpayers millions of dollars a year. He makes his home in Parkville, MO with his wife Heather and teenage son, Bryce.