About Me

I am an experienced school leader with a passion for impacting students’ lives.

My career in education began in Puebla, Mexico, as the principal of an English-speaking school. I hadn’t planned for this to be my first job out of college. I started the year working in the school’s administration and teaching high school math, and when the principal resigned unexpectedly, I stepped into the role.

On moving back to Texas, I became a Spanish teacher at Victoria East High School, eventually becoming the foreign language department head and teaching the AP course. It bothered me that there were only two students taking AP Spanish and that the curriculum had little to do with the AP exam, which led to my big project in Victoria – creating a district-wide, vertically aligned AP / Pre-AP Spanish program.

During my eighth year at Victoria East, I began volunteering for a congressional candidate working to unseat a four-term incumbent, eventually becoming the campaign’s communications director. After a year of working mornings, evenings, and weekends, we won the election, and I became the congressman’s first (and, for a while, only) staff member. I spent the next year leading a team that created the congressman’s messaging, media, and social media strategy from the ground up.

My wife and I had long planned for our kids to grow up in College Station, though, so we moved back here and I began teaching 8th grade U.S. History and CTE. At Wellborn Middle School, I have coordinated our House Teams program and created a leadership development program for 30 student leaders, and I worked with one other teacher to redevelop the 8th grade social studies curriculum for CSISD.

Read more about all of these experiences on the “Projects” page.