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 Physical Science, Chemistry, and Physics.

Marla and I have two little girls (Makenna and Madalyn) and two dogs (Useless and Worthless, er, Dakota and KeeLee).

I enjoy a lot of things, but my main hobby is computer stuff. I'm a unix guy (okay, really Slackware linux), and I run a small computer farm at home. My firewall is a GuruPlug running Slackware for ARM (ArmedSlack), my fileserver is a Netgear Stora running ArmedSlack, my printer server is a SheevaPlug running ArmedSlack, my development box (which really just hosts virtual machines for the real work) is running some sort of FrankenSlack at this point, and my laptop is a Thinkpad T400 running Slackware (of course). Sadly, I do have to admin a Windows machine - my wife insists upon having that on her laptop...

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