Hyrum is a managing partner at Blue Barn Wealth, LLC and has a PhD in personal financial planning from Texas Tech University, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Utah and a bachelor’s in accounting from Utah State University. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional. Prior to the merger of Financial Planning Office, LLC and Blue Barn Wealth, he was the managing partner at Financial Planning Office, LLC. Hyrum has also taught and published research related to financial-planning topics since 2009—first at Virginia Tech, then transitioning in 2013 to teaching tax planning and retirement planning in Utah Valley Unive