An injury in 2007 led me to re-focus on furthering my education leading me back into engineering and the transportation field. Over the next couple of decades, I learned much at two major employers and a couple of smaller stretches as a bridge remediation contractor and some offshore Naval engineering.

Today I find myself immersed in efforts to improve our educational system to give students the best results possible while simultaneously bolstering education’s financial efficiency.

PERSONAL LIFE

I am the very lucky husband of the best wife I never imagined I would be so lucky to have chosen me. She is an immigrant who has taught for decades, in two countries, in two languages, in both public and private schools, has taught the children of presidents, and now works for VBCPS sharing her language with our students. My children are older, the youngest being 27. I watched them grow through their education, and have spent years reflecting on the ins and outs of how that went. They were both educated in public schools and have completed further education. 

I like to write in my spare time and have two manuscripts totaling over 250k words in their editing phase that I will publish over the next couple of years. One is an alternate history novel and the other is an informative text. I also have an affinity for making wooden furnishings by hand. Many of my tools are over a century old and some were handed down through my family for generations. I am also an accomplished photographer. While I dabble in wedding photography I enjoy astrophotography, aviation, animal, landscape, and street photography. In what little spare time I have left I am learning HAM radio communications and have already passed all three amateur FCC licensing exams.