Keith currently owns and operates a Cincinnati franchise of Guardsman FurniturePro. He specializes in furniture repair in areas of finish touch ups, repair of broken parts and frames, and upholstery repair and spot cleaning. A wide variety of work comes from his furniture retail and delivery companies, warranty repairs, moving and insurance claims, and business and residential customers. He has learned to expect about anything when he walks into a customer’s home or place of business. He considers himself a wood worker and wood finisher that has learned a little upholstery to get along.

Keith regularly teaches wood finishing classes at the local Woodcraft store, is a regular presenter at the Cincinnati Woodworking club, where is a past-president, vice, president, and secretary. He has also taught woodworking classes at local schools’ adult education programs. He has regularly attended a number of classes and seminars in wood finishing, woodworking, and upholstery throughout the Midwest. He fondly remembers a January in the mountains of North Carolina where Monday morning started with a log on the ground and by Friday noon, had built a traditional Appalachian chair using only splitting wedges, froe, drawknife, spokeshave, brace and bit and chisel. Some of his children have almost forgiven him for waking them up at 7am to visit most of the museums, historical villages, and selected furniture factories east of the Mississippi while on what they thought were vacations.

After completing bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics, he spent the next 30 years supporting and developing commercial software products for both Fortune 100 companies and eventually an international privately-owned software company, culminating with managing 18 engineers in Cincinnati, St. Louis, Toronto, Boston, and Paris, France. The term “herding cats" was appropriate. People are often surprised by the re-careering, but it is simply a different type of problem-solving.

During that time, he was an avid hobbyist woodworker. As Dave Barry describes it, "There is a very fine line between a hobby and mental illness." During that time, he built desks, dressers, beds, tables, cabinets, picture frames, bookcases, chairs, and several hundred wood boxes of various types and 35 bookcases and cabinets for his church.