I received my bachelor’s degree in music composition from BYU and finished a master’s degree and advanced to candidacy for a doctorate in music composition from UCLA, where I had the opportunity to learn film scoring from Jerry Goldsmith. Since leaving UCLA, I have been teaching at Salt Lake Community College, where I am an associate professor of music and head up the media music composition program. For the past 20 years, I have taught music, including songwriting, music composition, music theory, scoring for film and television, and interactive audio and music for games and other media.

My primary focus has been on orchestral composition and arranging, but I’d love an opportunity to do about anything. On the game development side, I do have a bit of a background in programming (it’s been my hobby while music has been my career), one of the classes I’ve taught for the past decade has been music for games and interactive media, and I have a basic understanding of Wwise and FMod. I’m eager to add some professional experience to my teaching experience in this area.