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About Me

I’m an entrepreneur, real estate investor, executive, family man and follower of Christ.  Not necessarily in that order.  Here is a quick overview of my journey….

I started my first business at 13 when I used my savings to purchase two arcade games, Tempest and Space Duel.  I contacted local businesses and negotiated space for the games in return for a share of the profit.   Each week I’d jump on my bike, ride across town to count the money and give the business owner their share.  I didn’t realize at the time but this was the beginning of a life-long entrepreneurial journey.

Through high school and college I toyed with ideas for multi-level marketing, real estate, computer sales but never pulled the trigger.  I graduated from Baylor in December of 1994 and started working as a Software Engineer for Sprint in Dallas, TX.

Soon after graduating I purchased a condo in Dallas and was bit by the real estate bug.   I purchase my first real estate investment a year later, a 4-plex in Waco, TX.  The 4,400 sq ft building was built in 1929 and had neither central heat nor air.   I fixed up the property, filled it with graduate students and sold for a nice profit 4 years later.

In early 1997 I purchased a Pilot 1000, the predecessor to the PalmPilot with the software development kit (SDK) and created a few simple database apps over the next few months.  I formally launched Mobile Generation Software in September of 1997 to create and market software for mobile devices.  I grew the business substantially over the next three years then sold it to Handmark in October of 2000 to become their VP of Technology.

In 2002 I purchased an historic commercial building in downtown Grapevine TX.   I fixed it up, rented it to a Christmas store and to Handmark then sold it in 2005 for a nice profit.  It wasn’t really this easy but more on that in a future blog post.

At Handmark I spearheaded the design and development for many of the early PDA software products including Monopoly, Scrabble and Tetris.  In 2003 I contributed on a 3 person team that designed Pocket Express, the first on-device portal for mobile devices to include news, weather, sports, movie show times, maps and 411. I started the Studios division in 2008 of Handmark where I am currently responsible for mobile versions of Zagat and Oxford University Press.

I partnered with a friend to launch dfwinvestors.net in 2006 and LakeHub in 2008.

I also serve on the board of Cross Timbers Church and Compass Wilderness.

I have four kiddos and an amazing wife, Danielle that has been my partner through this awesome journey.