I was born on May 8, 1951 in Holly Hill, SC and reared on a farm with beef cattle and row crops. My father was a large animal veterinarian and my mother taught school. I was active in all aspects of the farm and helped in the veterinary practice. I still manage this farm as well as others today. After high school I attended Clemson University and earned a B.S. degree. I attended veterinary school at the University of Georgia and graduated cum laude in 1975 with a D.V.M. Following vet school I served in the U.S. Air Force veterinary corps until 1977. After the Air Force I pursued a degree in nutrition and dairy management at Mississippi State University graduating summa cum laude in 1980 with a post-doctoral masters.

From 1977 through 1981 I was a professor at Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine where I rose to Director of the Economic and Performance Medicine Department. I left Mississippi in 1981 for North Carolina to be a partner for twelve years in a large multi-man private practice in Apex, NC. Doing exclusively cattle work, I performed embryo transfers, collected and froze bull semen and embryos, operated a dairy milking equipment business, and did reproductive work, nutrition work, herd health work and emergencies. From 1993 until now I have been a private, solo, food supply veterinarian, embryo practitioner, nutritionist, and consultant. If it could be done to a cow I probably did it during those years. I have been blessed to be able to work and serve in many states and several other countries. During the decades, I owned and operated five other practices and also owned and operated five Subway restaurants. 

I owned and operated two dairies simultaneously with a partner between 1984 and 1992. My partner and I used embryo transfers in our own herd and bred three bulls in the top 100 in the world. We were fortunate to breed and sell many bulls and good cows. Together, we owned and managed over a thousand dairy cattle. In 2011 I re-entered the dairy business with a farm called Agri-Science Opportunity which resulted in the ownership of two more dairy farms, a cheese business, an education center, a genetics center, and an innovation center. In the innovation center we researched both animal and human disease problems and presently there are drugs in development for the alleviation of human suffering.

For the past thirty-five years I have been closely associated with five world religious and/or development organizations -- Christian Veterinary Mission, Boy Scouts of America, Heifer Project International, The United Methodist Church, and Freedom Global. I have led or participated in dozens of trips for these agencies, providing service opportunities for hundreds of participants. My hope is to instill in others a “heart for service”. My passions are my faith-based activities, my family, my clients, feeding the world in the future, my profession, and my farms in that order. I have a wife of 48 plus years, three children and six grandchildren. Annually, I try to publish a scientific paper, perform some type of Christian mission work (at least 10% of my time), and/or participate in veterinary education in order to return something to my world. I perceive my essential role in the world is as a part of the food production system without which none of us can thrive. My role in the Kingdom is to improve the human condition so that people will be receptive to the message of God’s love and to mobilize others for all aspects of the Kingdom’s work.