Great care starts with great infrastructure. Behind the scenes, one of Sunshine Communities’ newest leaders brings decades of experience, nonprofit expertise, and a lifelong love of Toledo sports to help Sunshine work smarter and more efficiently.
If you’ve ever attended a Toledo Mud Hens game, followed Toledo Storm hockey, or watched BGSU hockey, you’ve likely crossed paths with one of the biggest sports fans—and systems thinkers—now strengthening Sunshine’s operations.
A lifelong Toledo sports supporter, he served as a bat boy for the Mud Hens in the 1980s. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he became IT Director and webmaster for the Toledo Storm, building the team’s first website and providing game-day IT support from the press box. Today, he still follows BGSU hockey and the Toledo Walleye and plays ball hockey as a goaltender at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church.
For more than 20 years, he has also helped lead the Lutheran Basketball Association, currently serving as President. Each March, he oversees a national middle school tournament in Fort Wayne featuring 64 teams from across the country.
More than two decades ago, he helped pioneer livestreaming the tournament—long before it was common. What began as a small experiment now reaches more than 100,000 viewers annually. Operated as a nonprofit with a $50,000 budget, the tournament reflects his experience stretching resources, building partnerships, and scaling mission-driven work.
His path to Sunshine began through a former ProMedica colleague who saw both his technical skill and his desire for meaningful impact.
“When I bring solutions, they’re actually listened to and implemented,” he says. “That’s rare. Here, I can make improvements that impact people’s daily work.”
He’s energized by creating systems that strengthen daily operations—freeing teams to focus on delivering exceptional support.
Because when systems work better, people do too.