As a computer salesman for a national sales firm, Art has been recognized by three national sales awards. Art currently resides in Highland, Utah where he is president of Invictus Communications, Inc.

Art has been named Young Entrepreneur of the Year for 1992 by the Small Business Administration for a six-state region. He was named 1998 Consummate Speaker of the Year by Keynote Speakers Bureau in San Francisco, California. In 1994, Art was featured in Success magazine as one of the Great Comebacks of the Year. As a member of the National Speakers Association, Art has been awarded the coveted CSP designation (Certified Speaking Professional)---a status achieved by fewer than 7 percent of professional speakers.

Art has been married for thirteen years to Utah's 1981 Junior Miss, and 1992 Mrs. Utah USA, Dallas Howard and they have two children. He is a world-class wheelchair athlete enjoying a variety of sports. On July 10th, 1993 he set a world record by becoming the first quadriplegic, at his level of ability, to race an ultra marathon of 325 miles between Salt Lake City and St. George, Utah. Art has been seen by millions on national television with his friend Tony Robbins, nationally best-selling author of Awaken The Giant Within.

Art has authored two regionally best-selling books entitled Some Miracles Take Time, and Finding Peace in Troubled Waters. Art travels more than 200,000 miles a year speaking to hundreds of professional and civic organizations such as IBM, 3M, Sun Microsystems, TCI Cablevision, AT&T, Young Presidents Organization, Coca-Cola, GTE, Novell, KeyCorp, ERA Real Estate, and Prudential Healthcare on the topic The Impossible Just Takes a Little Longer.