I graduated in 1992 from the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State Univerisity with a BA in voice. I completed a masters degree in music composition and a second masters in choral conducting in 1997 from Bowling Green State University. I was awarded the BGSU James Paul Kennedy award for outstanding graduate student in music in that same year.
I am currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Toledo in Curriculum and Instruction. My status in my doctoral program is ABD (all but dissertation) as I have completed all coursework and other requirements to receive my degree.
I am also the Director of Technology at Central Catholic High School in Toledo, Ohio where I am responsible for many different aspects of educational technology, including the coordination of our 1 to 1 laptop program that is putting an Apple MacBook into the hands of all of our students.
I was extremely humbled and grateful to receive an Apple Distinguished Educator award in 2007. I have found the ADE's to be an exceptionally dedicated group of educators that have a deep passion for creating the pinnacle of educational technology integration within their organizations, and I have been helped countless times by many of them, in many ways. I consider myself to be an educational technologist, musician, lifelong learner, and runner.