He received his PhD from the State University of New York at Albany in 1990 and completed a post-doctoral research position at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1993 where he specialized in the development and application of experimental design and quantitative methods to social and behavioral research involving lighting. From January 1998 until May of 2017 he was an associate professor at the University of South Florida College of Nursing where he taught doctoral-level courses in statistics and quantitative methods. He is now an associate professor at the University of South Florida College of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.