I'm an applied microeconomist working with patent and publication data to identify the unintended spillovers of collaboration across international borders. I love teaching and being in the classroom and have enjoyed the opportunities I have had to teach. I am blessed to have been able to offer such a varied number of courses over recent years. I look forward to continuing my own learning experience both in the classroom and in my research as I develop my career here at UC Merced.
As of 2016; my wife and I started Your Rain Systems Inc.; hoping to produce a partial solution to the eminent water crisis we face here in California. We won a $25,000 SAFE agreement to do patenting, proof-of-concept and move to the next stage of launch! We filed for patent in November of 2019, and now as of June 27th, 2023 we are patent holding!
I do online web and social media management and consulting; and have built dozens of websites; currently maintaining around 8 for local businesses and non-profit organizations in and around Merced.
I chair or vice-chair the Merced Bicycle Coalition, a local non-profit. I volunteer for numerous organizations; and have served as a member of the Bicycle Advisory Commission until moving to the county.
In a nutshell I'm a husband, father, Christian, economist, teacher, cyclist, snowboarder, longboarder, outdoorsman, vocalist, pianist and love to tinker with construction. Maybe Ben Jones is wrong and I can be a renaissance man after all?
As of 2016; my wife and I started Your Rain Systems Inc.; hoping to produce a partial solution to the eminent water crisis we face here in California. We won a $25,000 SAFE agreement to do patenting, proof-of-concept and move to the next stage of launch! We filed for patent in November of 2019, and now as of June 27th, 2023 we are patent holding!
I do online web and social media management and consulting; and have built dozens of websites; currently maintaining around 8 for local businesses and non-profit organizations in and around Merced.
I chair or vice-chair the Merced Bicycle Coalition, a local non-profit. I volunteer for numerous organizations; and have served as a member of the Bicycle Advisory Commission until moving to the county.
In a nutshell I'm a husband, father, Christian, economist, teacher, cyclist, snowboarder, longboarder, outdoorsman, vocalist, pianist and love to tinker with construction. Maybe Ben Jones is wrong and I can be a renaissance man after all?
