After graduating from Pitt in 2008, two friends and I received a grant as part of the inaugural class of AlphaLab, a startup incubator in Pittsburgh. We co-founded Chogger, a comic-strip creation Web 2.0 site. Later that year I co-founded Stone & Steel Investments LLC, a real-estate renovation and lessor company. Our company owns and maintains a rental family home in the Perry Hilltop neighborhood of Pittsburgh and another in Canonsburg. Some recent personal web projects of mine include the World Directory of Churches and Blicarea.
From 2009-2010, while studying in Dublin, I had the opportunity to travel extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East. I presented at a World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) conference in Berlin, and traveled again to a WSCF conference in Kiev. I traveled to Armenia, the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia (country), a journey which magnified my passion for Eastern Europe, religion in the Soviet Union, and the Caucasus. After our wedding in 2010, my wife and I honeymooned through Central Europe and the Balkans. We also traveled together to Romania to teach English and attend another WSCF conference in Miclăușeni. Some of my travels can be found in my blog, available here.