Bill holds a BA in vocal/instrumental music education with a minor in piano from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He has done graduate work at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. After graduating from UNL he taught high school music for five years in Neligh, Nebraska, directing many award winning choirs, show choirs, and madrigal groups.

While attending graduate school in Kansas City he could be heard performing throughout the city at various hotels, nightspots and dinner theatres. From 1992 to 1996 he served as the producer of the award winning television broadcast of the Miss Missouri Pageant seen live across the state. In 1992 he started producing competition arrangements for use by contestants on the local, state and national levels of the Miss America Pageant. From 1990 to 2009 he has worked on music for SEVEN Miss America's and has had from one to six contestants place as
semi-finalists every single year.

Music is Bill’s passion, and making every contestant he works with the best that she can be is his specialty.