I earned two bachelor's degrees, in Mathematics and Physics, from St. Bonaventure University. My studies there have also included some graduate courses in mathematics education, taken in a Master's program at St. Bonaventure. I continue to be a fan of Bonnies Basketball, despite their scandals of recent years. After all, they're the only major sports team within 70 miles of where I grew up!
On August 10th, 1999, I completed the requirements for and received the degree of Doctor of Arts in Mathematics, having worked for several years in absentia from the Department of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon, in Pittsburgh. For my doctoral dissertation, I wrote a textbook for a basic course linear algebra which uses instructional technology. Click here for the Introduction, in PDF format. I also hold a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon.
I worked a two-year appointment as a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Texas at El Paso, during which I taught four courses per semester and worked in absentia on my dissertation. I look on it as a post-doc in math education. It was here I got my first real experience teaching at the university level -- experience that earned me six job offers when I sent out CV's in early 1998, despite being over a year away from finishing a doctorate. I'll take that over a Ph.D. post-doc any day of the week!
The offer I accepted was at The University of Detroit Mercy, where I've labored ever since. I love it here -- can't say it any plainer.
My Erdos Number is: 5
My "mathematical genealogy" can be explored here.