Travis has been learning about helping organizations improve since 2008. By 2013, he self-identified as a Scrum coach. Around that time, he met Alexei Zheglov, from whom he began to learn about the Kanban Method. Travis has had the good fortune of working with Mr. Zheglov and helping a client together over the past few years. After attending Mr. Zheglov's Kanban Management Professional classes, Travis went on to attend David J. Anderson's Coaching Masterclass and Train the Trainer with Janice Linden-Reid. Travis has been serving as an Accredited Kanban Trainer since January 2017.Over the past year, Travis has had the opportunity to support several middle and senior level managers with the Systems Thinking Approach to Introducing Kanban (STATIK) to the design Kanban services so that their organizations—complex adaptive systems—are stimulated to improve.

Travis has also been accused, since his adolescence, of being a philosopher.