I have a B.A. in Religious Studies from Trinity Western University and an M.A. in Biblical Archaeology from Hebrew University, Jerusalem. As a student, I excavated at Tel Hazor (Area A) with Amnon Ben Tour, Tel Rehov (Areas A & E) with Amihai Mazar, Revadim (Prehistory, and Nazareth with Ross Voss. I am the Founder & CEO of Samson Tours, Inc. and a stockholder in BiblicalReproductions.com.

I am the yet-unpublished author of three literary works: Ikkibu and the Water Clock of Babylon (a Young Adult novel about Ancient Mesopotamia), The Prince of Good (Young Adult Novel about the the last of the line of Montezuma) and Napoleon's Folly (a screenplay).