Mr. D holds a Bachelor's of Arts in Secondary Education in the areas of Dance and History, and a Master's of Education in Administrative Leadership. Mr. D trained under TJ Majerus, Cliff Keuter, Jeniffer Tsukaima, Mary Fitzgerald, and Holly Manville-Cook at Arizona State University. Mr. D's studio training is under the direction of Holly Manville-Cook, Tammy Booth, Sibylle Aatos-Dadey, TJ Majerus, and Wanda Manville.

 

Many of his students have gone on to professional dance jobs, like the National Tours of major recoding artists, So You Think You Can Dance, the Broadway Musical Mean Girls and American Idiot, Carnival Cruise Lines, Sonya Teyeh Dance Company, Dallas Cowboy's Cheerleaders, Phoenix Suns Dancers, Gravity Dance Company, Phoenix Rattlers Dancers, Phoenix Mercury Hip Hop Squad, University of Florida Dance Team, Phoenix Suns Solar Hip Hop Squad, Arizona State University Dance Team, University of Arizona Pomline, and Grand Canyon University Dance Team.