Experience
Director
Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Direct daily operations for the MSTE Office. Oversee graduate and undergraduate student employees who maintain MSTE Web site,
E-mail lists, and databases. Represent the MSTE Office at state and national meetings. Develop and present on-line curricula.
The site is available at http://www.mste.uiuc.edu. Created the first Web site for MSTE
in 1995 and the Mathematics Lessons Database in 1996.
Current research interests include: technology-based teacher professional
development and the integration of new technology tools into the mathematics and science classrooms.
Project Manager and Co-PI
Achievement Improving Mathematics and Science (AIMS) – May 2005 to present
Oversee the research and professional development components of a 3-year project to improve the performance of students in
mathematics and science through partnerships between public schools and universities.
Mathematics Materials for Tomorrow’s Teachers (M2T2): A project of the MSTE Office funded by the Illinois State Board of
Education (ISBE) – March 2000 to present
Oversee the creation and dissemination of standards-based mathematics materials that use the Internet, graphing calculators,
and common software programs for teaching and learning mathematics. The work requires supervision of a team of computer
programmers, teachers, mathematics educators, mathematicians, school administrators and members of various regional offices of
education around the state of Illinois. The materials and information on the project are at
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/m2t2/.
University Teaching Experience
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
– January 1995 to May 2004
Taught technology-intensive courses in mathematics education for middle school and high school teachers. Students use spreadsheets,
databases, computer geometry programs, and the Internet to create curriculum units for use in their classrooms. Taught courses on
developing technology-based curricula to high school and career-oriented teachers. Also, supervised student teachers in high school
mathematics classrooms. Provided teaching and technology support for distance education course with the Department of Curriculum
and Instruction.
Graduate Research Work
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
– August 1994 to June 1995
Developed a database of technology projects at the University of Illinois to help publicize those projects and provide better
communication between them. This work later became the MSTE Web site.
Programmer/Technical Writer for GenBank
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM – March 1992 to April 1994
Wrote computer programs and a technical manual for GenBank, a national DNA sequence database. The computer programs were written
in C and ran tests for errors in the electronic submissions to the database. The technical manual instructed computer users who
were attempting to enter data or search the database.
Mathematics and Science Teacher
Santa Fe Indian School, Santa Fe, NM – August 1987 to March 1992
Taught high school mathematics, science and English. The Indian School is a boarding school for Native American students
(primarily Pueblo Indians). Courses taught included physical science, earth science, junior English, geometry, algebra II,
and trigonometry.
Teacher-Intern
Santa Fe Public Schools, Santa Fe, NM – June 1986 to August 1987
Taught high school mathematics as one of a pair of team teachers in the Santa Fe Public Schools/University of New Mexico Teacher
Intern program.
Chemical Technician
W. R. Grace & Co., Columbia, MD – June 1983 to August 1984
Conducted experiments to fabricate chemical catalysts (specifically, Zeolites).