About Me
I grew up in the shrub-steppe landscape of south-eastern Washington State. My father was an engineer who helped clean up the Hanford Site and my mother was a public health nurse who educated people about their impending and newly born babies. I've also got a brother in Portland who helps train folks at a supplier of semicondutor materials. When we were little, we spent a lot of time running around with our cousins on the farm where my mom grew up. My family is the best.
I have always enjoyed math and science. The highlight of my pre-college days is probably participating in the National Science Bowl with some of my high school friends. I was also a pretty avid soccer player for a number of years. After high school, I studied math and computer science at Harvey Mudd College, a small tech school east of Los Angeles. Following that, I moved to Vancouver for a couple of years to attend Simon Fraser University and double down on the computer science degrees.
In 2010, I joined the Math for America, Los Angeles program, which is designed to help build and support math teachers in the greater Los Angeles area. I taught geometry, statistics, and computer science in the Los Angeles Unified School District for five years. Teaching was mostly pretty good.
In 2016, I married my wonderful wife. I retired from teaching that June and now engineer software for Google over in Venice Beach. I'm on a team that helps determine how effective advertisers' ad campaigns are.
My wife and I have since had two children. They're great!
