I am thrilled to be back at Grand Canyon University's Colangelo College of Business for my fourth year. I started teaching here in September 2020.
My experiences in education include teaching economics, finance, statistics and other business classes at several colleges and universities in Arizona, Oregon and New York, including Arizona State and Eastern Oregon universities, Phoenix College and the City College of New York. My own education began at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with a bachelor's in economics, and then at ASU's W.P. Carey School with graduate and doctoral work in economics and finance. More recently I earned a post-baccalaureate in secondary education from Rio Salado College. For over twenty years, while pursuing what I feel is my calling, being in a classroom, I had a parallel career in banking and public finance. This career included a few years on Wall Street, working as a bond trader at a global investment bank, Goldman Sachs, as well as banking relations director, treasurer and chief financial officer roles for the cities of New York and smaller jurisdictions in Oregon and Arizona. In addition to teaching I have had other roles involving young people, from coaching baseball and tennis teams, sponsoring extracurricular activities like Econ Challenge and Odyssey of the Mind and developing digital, direct-to-students content for leading companies like Pearson and Barnes & Noble, to being a local school-board member, Scoutmaster and youth pastor. Before joining GCU's adjunct faculty I taught economics and mathematics for eight years at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale and charters in Gilbert, Queen Creek and Flagstaff. I believe these endeavors are essential elements of a holistic education. My wife, Joni, an educator as well as an artist and writer, and I live in Scottsdale and have a summer home in Oregon. Our children, Daniel (Kara) and Ariel (Brian), and our granddaughter, Emerson, live in Scottsdale and Bridport, a beach town on the Tasmanian (AU) coast. |