I was born in San Diego and spent most of my life in San Carlos, a small community within San Diego city. While I was attending Patrick Henry High School, in the San Diego Unified School District, I assisted in a severely handicapped classroom and found my passion for teaching. However, I enjoyed the sciences and decided after graduation to combine the two. I entered my first year of college as a Biology major with intentions of becoming a high school teacher.

I attended a few colleges before I graduated from San Diego State University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences. After completing my degree I started classes in the Teacher Education Department to earn my Single Subject Teaching Credential in Biology, Chemistry and Geosciences. In 1999 I moved to Concord, California and started my first teaching job at Concord High School teaching Integrated Science. After a year in Concord I started to miss the beach and moved back to San Diego and was hired in the summer of 2000 by the San Dieguito Union High School District.

I have taught at three out of the four comprehensive high schools within SDUHSD (La Costa Canyon, Canyon Crest, and San Dieguito).  This school is by far my favorite to work at within SDUHSD.  The students, staff and community are awesome!

As much as I enjoy working with high school students, by far the most important part of my life is my family.  I am married to my wonderful wife, Kristin, and we have a beautiful daughter Tabitha.  Tabitha is starting her junior year of college, therefore I understand a little bit of the mind of a teenager.  We also have two other members of our family, Cooper and Ivy.  They are the other "kids" in the family, of the furry kind.  When I am not working or hanging out with family I am running or cycling along the coast, building something or doing a project at home.