I was raised on a farm in Joliet, Montana . It is a small town about 35 miles from Billings. Click the picture for more photos->
At Joliet High School, I avidly played sports and kept active with the math team and student government. I spent summers working on local farms to make money for college. Click the picture for more photos->
I started college at Montana Tech in Butte to be an engineer but decided it really was not for me. I transferred to MSU-B to become a math teacher and graduated in December 2000 with my Bachelor's Degree in Secondary Math Education. Click the picture for more photos->
After graduating, I started teaching part-time at MSU-B in the spring. While completing my masters, I taught at the Academic Support Center on the senior campus and in 2003 started teaching Math 106 online. I started teaching at the College of Technology fall 2004. Click the picture for recent photos-> Click here for some old photos
I got married May 31, 2003. I have put up some of the pictures from that crazy day! Shelley and I had been dating for seven years......we both finished college first.....lay off! Click the picture for more photos->
On July 8, 2006, my wife Shelley and I had our first child, Sydney Nicole. I have a "couple" pictures of her on the webpage. Click the picture for more photos->
On July 3, 2008, we had our second, Brooklyn Lee. Click the picture for more photos->
More often than not......both girls are in the pictures so here is a link with general pics

OK so now you know I have always been a "math nerd," a little bit about me, and my sense of humor, I can show you some of the sentiments of most of my students by the end of math classes.

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