Jeff has been fascinated with how things work since he helped his
father build a cabin where at the age of 11, he happily used a star
drill and hammer to put holes in concrete perimeter of the entire
foundation.
In high school, Jeff built a 100 gallon aquarium,
learned how to weld and cut with an oxy-acetylene rig. Went on to
major in Chemistry and became a pharmaceutical sales representative
and renovated apartments in the evening Eventually led to two full
turn-of-the-century restorations in the Central West End of St.
Louis. Design and built of his own house in Clarkson Valley after
several complete restorations in the Central West End of St. Louis,
MO. Having mastered residential turn-of-the-century restoration work,
Jeff now builds experimental aircraft.
Along the way Jeff subsequently completed his Master’s in Social Work
from Washington University School of Social Work.
In 2008 Jeff participated in Power and Contribution a Landmark
Education course. The course invited the participants to create a
project that was bigger than themselves. Jeff took on bringing the
work of Landmark Education to a country that did not have it, in part
to test the Landmark technology. After choosing Ukraine and later all
the Russian speaking countries just to make sure it was out of reach
in his default world-view. In a few years he found the Leadership
Course: An Ontological and Phenomenological Approach (LC) authored by
Werner Erhard, the same person who created the Landmark Education
programs, and offered it to some of the top Universities in Ukraine.
In 2015 Jeff leads the Leadership Course at National Academy of
Kyiv-Mohyla University and Kyiv Polytechnical Institute with some
seminars based on the LC material at National Aviation University.
He has been studying Russian and Ukrainian languages since 2008.