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Welcome, Here Is My Resume

My teaching qualifications are as follows:

1. Advanced Professional Certification as a Social Studies teacher, 2004 - 2009.

November 2007 to January 2008; One On One Aid, The Chelsea School, Silver Spring Md.

Fall 2001 - Summer 2007; The Academy of the Holy Cross, Kensington Md.

Fall 1998-Spring 2000 ; Howard County Public Schools

Fall 1997-Spring 1998; Social Studies teacher, Albert Einstein High School, Kensington, Md.

Fall 1996-Spring 1997; Long term substitute, Albert Einstein High School, Kensington, Md.

Fall 1991-96; Substitute teacher, Montgomery County Public Schools

Spring 1991; Long term substitute teacher, Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Greenbelt, Maryland

1986-88; Social Studies teacher, Regina High School, Hyattsville, Maryland

1985-86; Social Studies and Composition teacher, the Reinhard School, Laurel, Maryland.

3. Swimming and Lifeguarding teacher, certified by American Red Cross, 1976-Present.

Summer 1976-78; Swimming and Lifeguarding instructor, Old Dominion University Pool, Norfolk Virginia

1991-93; Swimming instructor, Martin Luther King Pool, Silver Spring Maryland

1993-95; Swimming and Lifeguarding instructor, Montgomery Aquatic Center, Rockville Maryland

1995-2005; Swimming and Lifeguarding instructor, Olney Aquatic Center, Olney, Maryland

I have also been a lifeguard and pool operator since 1976. From the summer of 1986 to 2001, I was the pool operator and supervisor at the College Park Towers in College Park Maryland. In 2002 and 2003 I was the manager at the College Park Woods Swim Club.

I worked in retail from 1980 to 1982, and for the Christmas season 1985. I have also worked as an usher at a sports arena and have delivered pizzas.

My Biography

I was born in Morgantown West Virginia, where my grandfather was a prominent politician. He died when I was a baby, so I didn't know him. I lived from the time I was 6 in Norfolk Va., where I lived through my school years. I went to Blessed Sacrament Catholic School through grade 8, and to Norfolk Catholic High School.

I started taking piano lessons in 1965, and I took up the guitar in 1971. I always liked music, and one of my favorite TV shows during the 1960's was the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. I saw bands like the Who, the Doors, and the Jefferson Airplane for the first time, and one of my favorite pieces of music is "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams. I first saw that song performed on the Smothers Brothers show.

While I was in grade school I started collecting comic books, but I got out of that and went over to collecting music around my senior year in high school. My biggest collection is the Who, I have all sorts of different label pressings of vinyl and on cd. My other two favorite bands are the Velvet Underground and Black Sabbath. I also started collecting bootleg tapes back then.

I attended Old Dominion University in Norfolk Va. And West Virginia University in Morgantown, and I graduated from O.D.U. in 1980.  

I got a job as an assistant manager of a shoe store right out of college, and I stayed with that company until 1982. I worked at Sovran Bank (now Bank of America) for a little while, but then I got a job as the lifeguard at an apartment building in Norfolk for the sweet summer of 1982. It was a very relaxing summer, and I actually passed Trig that summer too. That fall I got a job as the head lifeguard at the Norfolk Central Y.M.C.A. in the fall of '82. I also got in a band. It was a thrash punk band called Front Line, and I played bass and wrote 4 songs. We had a half hour set and did shows with other bands, and it was the most fun part of my life. I played in places like CBGB's in New York, and did shows with a lot of people who became major musical figures in the 1990's. The summers of 1982 and 1983 are probably the most fun summers I ever had.

In 1983, I moved to College Park, Maryland to go to graduate school at the University of Maryland. I didn't finish graduate school, I became a teacher in 1985. I taught part time at a small school in Laurel, but I was only there one year. I started teaching in 1986 at Regina High School, a girl's Catholic high school in Hyattsville in 1986 and taught there until the end of the school year in 1988. I also began teaching private music lessons in 1986, and I still do today.

I taught as a substitute teacher in the Prince Georges County Public Schools from 1988 to 1991, and in Montgomery County from 1991 to 1996. This time was fun, I was working as a d. j. for Nard's Rock And Roll, and I got to play in a lot of major clubs in D.C., Maryland and Virginia. The best spot was the River Club, where I spun from 1988 to 1992. I met people like Richard Nixon, Mick Jagger, and Casey Kasem. The two best times were when I spun 4 or 5 Lou Rawls songs while Lou Rawls himself was dancing on the dance floor, and the time I met Muhammed Ali.

I became a long term substitute at Albert Einstein High School in the fall 1996. I was hired as a full time teacher in 1997, but I didn't go back in 1998. My mother went into the hospital the day before school ended that year, and died the weekend after. After she died I took some time off and worked in Howard County from 1998 to 2000.

For the 2000 - 2001 school year I worked at the Options Public Charter School in Washington D.C. I was fun and rewarding, I had fourteen students to worry about and the setting was really nice, within sight of the U.S. Capital building. But I decided I wanted to go back to teaching high school, and I wanted to go back to the Catholic schools, so I left at the end of the 2000 - 2001 school year. I also won the Teacher of the Year award, of which I am very proud. The competition was top notch. I especially thank Kalida Stokes, who gave me valuable guidance in the Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound curriculum.

In the fall of 2001 I went back to where I started, in a Catholic high school. I taught at the Academy of the Holy Cross, it's actually close to Einstein in Kensington Maryland. I taught Structure and Analysis, Speech, Instrumental Music, World Studies, Latin American History, Middle Eastern History, Asain History and Government at the Academy, and moved on in 2007.

I lived in a small 1 bedroom apartment in College Park from 1984 to 1999. I bought a house in College Park in 1999. It's a light blue house with a pond in the back yard with fish in it.

I've done a lot of work on it, I've widened the driveway, put a new roof and front walkway on, upgraded the bathtub and replaced the hot water heater. I've also added a bathroom and a separate central air conditioning system to the basement.  Next up is a new carpet for the second floor.

Gordo lived in the basement with ten aquarium tanks and his two cats, Val and Moochie. Moochie was a stray who we adopted in 2003. Gordo is in business with his dad and brother, they renovate houses and sell them for a lot more than they bought them for. He's also a chef, and he caters private parties. There are periodic visits by Phil "Jeebus" and "Big Bob". This is usually when Jeebus or Big Bob wants to go fishing or crabbing on weekend mornings with Gordo. There's also "Fat" Sean, who owns a DJ company and who arrives at 4 in the morning on Sundays when he doesn't want to go home to his wife and kids and wake them up. Instead he wakes me up. A dear friend of all of ours, Johnny O, died in December 2004. His tribute page is HERE.

Other people in the crew are not seen too much. "Little" Sean lives with his wife in Columbia Md., so we don't see him much, and Richie "Dickie" Dorn moved to Salisbury. His brother, Ron "RD", works for a company in Florida, but he's back up here a couple weeks a month.

 I hang out in College Park at the Loft or the Town Hall. I also like to go to the 9:30 Club and the Black Cat in D.C. when they have good bands playing.

Then there's Jessica. I take care of her lizard, Herman, Herman eats apples and dead crickets, as well as cat food (!). There were four ferrets, Missy, Baby, Polar Bear and Mino living in my office upstairs. They've all died, but all of them lived longer than ferrets normal life span. In fact Missy lived until she was around 8 and a half. here's also a cat, Gypsy, that Jessica got from a classmate of hers at the University of Maryland back in 2001.

So right now I'm taking my time and looking for the best teaching job I can find. This fall I've substituted or actually guest taught  at Our Lady of Good Counsel, the Key School, the Chelsea School, Archbishop Spalding High School, and St. Mary's in Annapolis. I like the Catholic schools the best, although  Key is a lot of fun. There are no bells  and it's a really relaxed environment.