Mr. Shay was born over 14 millenia ago on Long Island, right outside the great city of New York. He has three, count them, three Master's Degrees, two in Mathematics and the third in Teaching. Mr. Shay has a paper he wrote on the mathematics properties of soap bubbles (?!!) published in the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics and helped write a Calculus textbook.

He was the first math teacher hired at CCA and is extremely proud to be a Raven.

Mr. Shay is committed to helping all student and all teachers succeed with mathematics. He was instrumental in bringing the Common Core to California, having served on the Academic Content Standards Commission in 2010 and the Mathematics Framework Committee in 2012. He speaks at local, regional and national conferences and volunteers with the California Mathematics Council - South, currently serving as the Vice President. He has been a reader and leader for the AP Calculus Exams since 2010 and is currently a member of the Test Development Committee for the AP Calculus Exams. He has also served on the Test Development Committee for the SAT Mathematics Subject Tests, and the Math section of the SAT Reasoning Test.

Some of his proudest moments teaching has been the numerous awards he has received from students, alumni and colleagues. Most recently, he was awarded the 2019 Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching from the NSF and the White House.

Besides being an accomplished mathematics teacher, Mr. Shay had a career in the performing arts as an actor, director, choreographer, singer, etc. At this point, Mr. Shay focuses is "free" time by volunteering with the mathematics community, being a dad to his Great Dane Dolly, and, most importantly, partner and sous chef to his husband.