Professional
I teach physics at Lynn English High
School, where I have been happily employed since 2011. (Go Bulldogs!)
Prior to teaching at LEHS, I taught chemistry at various other schools in the
Boston area. Chemistry remains my favorite of the sciences, but physics is my
favorite subject to teach. I also coach the LEHS
Science Team.
I hold a National Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
certification in Science: Adolescence & Young Adulthood. I am an active
participant in the Boston University Physics Teacher Network (BU-PTN) and a
co-author of one of the inquiry lab experiments in the AP Chemistry lab manual.
I also teach AP Physics workshops for Mass Insight Education.
Prior to teaching, I worked in the pharmaceutical and software industries.
Mini Biography
I was born in December 1964, which places me squarely on the cusp between
the "baby boomers" and "generation X". I grew up in Corning New York where I graduated as salutatorian of Corning-Painted Post East High
School in 1983. I earned two bachelor of science (S.B.) degrees from
MIT, one in chemical engineering (1987) and
one in biology (1988).
After college, I worked for five years as a chemical process engineer for
Advanced Magnetics, and then
eight years as a software engineer and operations manager for several startup
companies. I started my teaching career in 2003.
I married my wife Nancy (a fellow MIT graduate) in 1996, and we went to
Antarctica on our honeymoon. We have two amazing daughters.
Interests
My primary interests outside of school are music and dance. I play viola
with Symphony by the
Sea, the Reading Symphony
Orchestra, and the New England Philharmonic and I sing and act with the North Cambridge Family Opera
Company. I am the dance foreman (teacher) and lead musician for two morris
dance teams: Red
Herring Morris, an adult team, and Banbury Cross Morris, a children's team (age 9 through high
school). I have a wide range of other hobbies and interests as well, including
caving, scuba diving, coffee roasting, locksmithing, LARPs/roleplaying games,
bicycling, travel, amateur radio, camping & hiking, computers, photography,
community theater, skiing, trains, and coin collecting. |
