OFFICIAL TITLES AND ROLES
Vice President, George Fox Digital (current)
Leadership and innovation at Oregon’s largest private university
Serves on University President’s executive team; reports to University Board of Trustees twice yearly
Created new partnerships with area high schools and international students
Oversaw creation of 30 new digital courses featuring nearly 500 professionally-produced educational videos (YouTube channel)
Digital efficiency leading to $2M of internal savings in 2022–2023
Secured $1.5M grant from Murdock Foundation (media coverage)
Executive produced George Fox TALKS podcast (video + audio; 70,000 streams and 400 subscribers in 18 months)
Associate Provost for Academic Innovation, Library, and Research
Helped our university get through the difficulty of the pandemic through learning design
Created pathways for our faculty and university as a whole to serve as public intellectuals in new ways
Led efficiency efforts for Library budget that did not negatively impact student experience or faculty research
Department Chair, Theology
Led major curriculum revision to clarify options for students and empower faculty
Professor, George Fox University (current)
Promotions from Assistant to Associate and Full Professor, with Tenure
Undergraduate Researcher of the Year (see Writing)
Department Chair (budget, personnel, and hiring responsibilities)
Helped start university’s Honors program
Graduate Researcher, Harvard University
Fully funded (with stipend) five-year PhD program scholarship in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning award as Teaching Fellow
OTHER THINGS I’M PROUD OF
Successful Grant Writing and Management
$1,500,000, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, for creation of “George Fox Digital” project (2021; ongoing)
$231,000, Lily Endowment, for sustainability of a student summer camp (2020)
$5,000, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning, for “The Pedagogy of Podcasting,” exploring innovative ways professors can reach audiences (2020)
Public Speaking & Performance
Featured academic guest expert on Travel Channel’s America Unearthed (“Phoenicians in America”) (clip; ep review)
Co-host of the grant-winning Weird Religion podcast (with Leah Payne); over 100,000 streams (on Spotify; Apple)
Fundraising
Partnered with University advancement office to raise over $30,000 for an endowed scholarship in memory of Dr. Javier Garcia
Mentoring & Supervisory Work
Helped undergraduate students secure full MA scholarships to Harvard Divinity School; Princeton Seminary; Yale Divinity School
Business Advisor and CFO, Newberg Counseling & Wellness (current)
Website design, marketing, messaging, and accounting
Over three years: 1 therapist // $70K revenue —> 9 therapists // $735K revenue
Business website
Volunteer Activities
Announcer and officiating, Chehalem Swim Team
T-ball coach (5-year olds)
St. Barnabas Episcopal Parish: volunteer work and fundraising for The Soup Kitchen; Henderson House (domestic violence services)
Pro bono teaching & lectures (e.g., recent Zoom lecture for St. Mary’s University in Calgary, Canada, on “Concepts of Justice in the Ancient Near East”)