I am a 1995 graduate of Southeast Lauderdale High School in Meridian, Mississippi; I earned an Associate in Arts from Meridian Community College in 1997 and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (with a minor in Environmental Science) in 1999 from the University of West Alabama in Livingston. Finally, I recently (August 2007) earned a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership from the University of Alabama.

After graduating from college, I taught 8th Grade Science at Southeast Lauderdale Middle School from August 1999 until May 2003. During that time, I also worked part-time with the Lauderdale Emergency Management Agency and was a reserve deputy with the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Dept.

I met Marla in April of 2002, and I decided to move to Tuscaloosa (Northport, actually) and find a job teaching here. I started out teaching three classes of science at Echols Middle School and two classes at neighboring Lloyd Wood Middle School before moving to LWMS full-time. I am now at Tuscaloosa County High School teaching Biology and Physical Science.

I'm a computer hobbyist; I admin several boxes at home: a "home-made" 2.6GHz P4 running Slackware 12.0 that handles most of the services on my LAN, including dns, dhcpd, samba, nfs, web cache, and media server duties; a desktop running Windows XP Professional (for my wife); a Dell Optiplex GX260 P4 box running OpenBSD 4.2 that handles sshd to the rest of the world and various other things; an IBM ThinkPad T41 laptop running Slackware (usually -current); and an AMD X2 4200+ box that serves as a development system.

While I'm not active at the moment, I am also a licensed amateur radio operator - KD5GCK...