Greetings to all my students, families, Dulles HS and FBISD staff!

I am originally from New Jersey (Jersey shore area) where I attended and graduated from High School.  The University of Alabama was my next stop, which turned out to be my first lesson on cultural diversity.  With my “Yankee” accent and a personality like Howard Stern, you can imagine the dilemma I found myself in for the first time in the deep south!  It worked out in my favor though, with minimal friends and distractions, I was able to focus on my engineering studies!  Nevertheless, I acclimated like a high-altitude climber attempting to summit Everest and eventually fit right in!  Proof of this came when I was nominated and elected President of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.  After graduating with a degree in Petroleum Engineering, I worked a few years in Alabama before moving to Long Beach, CA, where I engineered projects in mostly urban areas, including South Central Los Angeles.  I also engineered many extended-reach wells from the artificial oil islands off the coast of Long Beach.  I capped off this portion of my career by working 1 year on the North Slope of Alaska.  I moved to Texas in 2001, and it was at this time my career shifted from engineering to leadership roles.  I was blessed to lead large global engineering teams in executive management roles.  This required extensive travel across the globe, in coach class unfortunately!  This was by far the most enjoyable portion of my career.  It was all about understanding cultures, building relationships and trust.  My engineering career came to an end in 2020 as a result of the pandemic and offered me an opportunity for self-reflection.  One part of my career I really enjoyed was mentoring and training new engineers fresh out of college.  I enjoyed preparing them for the corporate world and sharing my knowledge and insight on things that would allow them to succeed as engineers and move into leadership roles.  This was the spark that ignited something in me to want to apply this passion to our younger generation.  The idea of providing students with insight into what it takes to be successful from my own experience and sharing lifelong experiences with them inspired me to pursue teaching.  I decided to focus on math because it was the one area that had the most impact on my career.  I am passionate about math and can’t wait to permeate this passion in all my classes!  To my students, welcome to our class.  I am looking forward to getting to know all of you and being an integral part of your academic journey!  Some info about me:

B.S. Petroleum Engineering

Hobbies – Fishing, Golf, Photography, Camping, Hunting, Playing Saxophone, Cooking, Gardening, and Studying Math!

I’ve been a certified Special Olympics Coach for 20 years – Basketball, Track, Volleyball and Softball

High school sports I participated in – Cross Country, Wrestling, Track and Field

Countries I’ve worked in– Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, Panama, Algeria, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, Hungary, Spain, Italy, UAE, UK, Norway and Mexico   

B.S. Petroleum Engineering

Teacher Certifications -  Math 4-8, Math 7-12

Favorite Quote - “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”   - Archimedes

Publications and Patents:

–      SPE 124203 - Simulations of Field Development Planning Help Improve Economics of Heavy-Oil Project

–      SPE 62520 - Horizontal Open Hole Well Displacement Practices: Effect of Various Techniques on Well Productivity, Operational Complexity and Overall Project Economics

–      Vibration Analysis, Model Prediction and Avoidance: A Case History - Presented at SPE / IADC Indian Drilling Technology Conference and Exhibition

–      Collaborative Well Planning - Digital Energy Journal, Sept / Oct 2008

–      Software Aids Tight Gas Sand Development - American Oil and Gas Reporter, July 2007

–      Patent #10332219 - “Systems and Methods for Determining Optimum Platform Count and Position” - 06/25/2019

–      Patent #8421496 - “Systems and Methods for Improved Positioning of Pads” - 08/27/2013

–      Patent #8484004 - “Systems and Methods for Improved Positioning of Pads” - 07/09/2013

–      Patent #8204728 - “Systems and Methods for Improved Positioning of Pads” - 06/19/2012

–      Patent #8073664 - “Systems and Methods for Improved Positioning of Pads” - 12/06/2011

–      Patent #9611729 - “Systems and Methods for Positioning Horizontal Wells within Boundaries” - 4/4/20