Education

Graduated from Meyersdale Area High School.

Attended Penn State University. Studied Agriculture Education and Science Education.

Graduated from Montana State University. Majored in General Science Broadfield which included Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Earth/Space and General Science teaching credentials in the state of Montana. 

Attended graduate school at the University of Hawaii studying and researching Astronomy.

Graduated from Frostburg State University with a Masters Degree in Curriculum and Instruction focusing on Physics and Astronomy Education.

Attended additional graduate work from WVU and Penn State in Astronomy. Penn State University studied Agriculture Education and Science Education.

Teaching Experience

Student taught Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science at Sweet Grass County High School in Big Timber, Montana.  Assistant Track coach.

Served In the US Peace Corps and former Trust Territories of Marshall Islands and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands teaching Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Health, Algebra, Agriculture and Computer Science. Secondary Project with Fisheries and Aquaculture. Track coach.

Served as the Professional Development Schools’ liaison between the Frostburg State University, student teachers and public schools in Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Assisted with the University’s Planetarium and mobile Starlab.

Taught Biology, Chemistry, Physics and  CATS 9 & 10 (Coordinated and Thematic Science)  at Paw Paw, West Virginia.

 Taught CATS 9 and 10 at Keyser, West Virginia.

Taught 7 grade science, Physics, Principles of Technology, Earth and Space Science and Research Science at Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Taught Astronomy and Environmental Science at the West Virginia Governor's School in Green Bank, West Virginia.

Currently teaching Physics, Physics II/College in high school SFU Physics 105, General Physical Science, Physics Lab, ROC Science 7 and 8, and serves as the school’s Science Fiction Club adviser and the High School’s Ski Club’s adviser at Rockwood High School.

Certifications and Clearances

Pennsylvania Class II certification in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and General Science.

West Virginia Permanent Certification in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, General Science and Earth and Space Science.

Current Clearances with Childline, Pa State Police, and the FBI