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Sixty-three years young, with an uncommon breadth and depth of experience. This is what I bring to my work in college admission counseling, teaching, and educational administration.
Currently in China until June 2026, my wife and I will then be relocating to Florida looking for a place where we can invest our experience and passion for learning into the lives of young people.
Since 1998, my wife and I have lived in Malaysia, Qatar, Vietnam, and now China. Jeni is an early childhood and literacy specialist who has been in and around the classroom for 40 years..
I also have extensive experience in education, albeit in a variety of settings. I started working in college and high school settings in my mid-50s after serving as a pastor for 28 years in Florida, Texas, South Carolina, and Malaysia. Currently, I am in my fifth year with the BASIS-China network of schools as a director of college admission counseling. BASIS schools are rigorous college-prep AP curriculum schools in the US and China. Jeni is the head of the Early Childhood division of our school in Shenzhen.
My professional background includes classroom teaching of humanities subjects in Hanoi, management of a tutoring center in Doha, and administrative leadership of a school within a Malaysian university. I have also done private tutoring for the Qatari royal family and served as an adjunct faculty member with American Public University System teaching online in their MA in humanities program.
We have two grown daughters who spent most of their school years in Malaysia and graduated from The International School of Kuala Lumpur. One is now a teacher at the American Cooperative School of Tunis, having taught children previously in Saudi Arabia and young adults in Saharawi refugee camps in Algeria. She earned her MA in education at the University of Florida. Our younger daughter earned a PhD in history from Vanderbilt University in 2021. She held post-doctoral research positions at SMU and the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, where she is now Assistant Professor of History.
As head of school, with students at KDU, Malaysia (left); and as teacher of an AP Psychology class in Hanoi (right.)
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