About

I am a native of Washington, DC and moved to Austin, Texas, in 1982 at the age of 30. I graduated from the Sidwell Friends School in 1970 and I earned a BA from the American University, a double major in Applied Statistics and in Economics. I have just retired from a 38-year career in the information technology field as a computer programmer and database administrator. Along the way, I earned an MA in American History from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994. My master's report was one the history of the New Math movement in the United States following World War II.

I am an adjunct faculty member of the Austin Community College teaching US History. I also had that position from 1999 to 2008. I spent 3 years teaching in the computer science program, giving instruction in computer programming (using C++) and in the general survey course of computer science. I spent the next 6 years teaching semesters I and II of the survey course in American history.

I spent the fall, 2018 semester co-teaching 8th-grade math at Murchison Middle School in Austin. I taught four general-level math classes and a 7th-grade math enrichment class.

I live in Austin, Texas. I have two grown sons who are now in graduate school, pursuing music and mathematics, respectively. My favorite pastimes are running (I have been a runner since I was 14 and will be one as long as my knees hold out), reading (primarily history), and doing the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle every Sunday with my wife. My favorite drink is, of course, coffee.