I am the head of the Math Department here at Chabot College. I taught at Arroyo High School in San Lorenzo back in the early 2000s before I came to Chabot. Besides math, I also taught Advanced Placement Computer Science in public school. In my previous life before teaching, I was a programmer analyst in a management information systems department at a Silicon Valley company, which has since been acquired by Intel. I have a broad basic science background; I earned college credit in Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology while in high school by passing the Advanced Placement Examinations. I love making connections between disciplines, so feel free to talk to me about the math in your other classes, in both the natural and social science! When I am not engaged in mathematical and scientific activities, I like to swim, hike, and dance. I enjoy partner social dancing (mostly country western two-step) and belong to an American clogging group and an English Morris dance group.