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My first eighteen years were spent in far northern Wisconsin learning how to navigate life with five brothers and sisters. I have many pleasant memories of my growing up years and try to get back to the homestead as often as possible to visit with my father and sibling who still live in the northwoods. I graduated from high school in 1984 and from the UWSP in 1989.

Having completed college I landed my first job on the beautiful western lakeshore of Lake Michigan as a primary teacher. That same year is was fortunate enough to marry my college sweetheart. I spent one year at my first placement and was then hired in another district as an intermediate teacher and spent the next twelve years teaching at elementary schools in the same district. I also served as a Dean of Students at the local high school. While teaching at the elementary level I began and completed an Educational Leadership Masters program at the University of Wisconsin.

In 2002 I was given the opportunity to become an elementary principal in a school district on the north end of the Fox Valley. For the next six years I was that school’s principal and then in 2008 was asked by my superintendent to transfer to the district’s middle school where I have been since.
My wife and I have two children. Our oldest child attends college on the western side of the state and our  daughter is a junior in high school. My wife is a teacher in the same district my daughter attends and we have been married 22 years.