David graduated from BYU-Provo with an accounting degree and spent fifteen years practicing accounting, the majority of this time was as an auditor in public accounting. During those fifteen years he became a CPA, CFE, and earned his master’s in accountancy from Southern Utah University. He began his teaching career over five years ago with BYU-Hawaii teaching financial and international accounting. In 2017 he joined the entrepreneurship center teaching cycle of cash and small business management.