Professional History

After leaving graduate school, I went to work for Salomon Brothers, an investment banking firm in the financial district of New York City. I worked there from the summer of 1987 to the summer of 1988 as a Research Analyst in their Bond Portfolio Analysis department. I enjoyed the mathematics involved in the work, building on my knowledge of operations research and programming. I missed teaching tremendously, though.

In the Fall of 1988, I started teaching at Elon College's Department of Mathematics as an Assistant Professor.

During the 1991-1992 academic year, my wife worked in an internship in the Pittsburgh area. During this time I left Elon and worked (part-time) at Westminster College, first in their Mathematics and Computer Science Department, then in their Business Department.

Upon completion of her internship, I was fortunate enough to return to Elon in the Fall of 1992.

I served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics from 1994 to 2000.

During the spring of 1996, I was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor.

I served as Vice President for Colleges in the Central Region of the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics from 1997 to 1999.

I served as State Director for North Carolina in the Southeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America from 1997 to 2000.

In the Spring of 2001 I was on sabbatical, working on algebraic invariants for the LINK graph software package. (The LINK software project is directed by Dr. Jon Berry, formerly of Elon's Computing Sciences department.)

I have served as chair of Elon's Academic Council in 2003-2004.

I have served since the Fall of 2003 as web-master for the Southeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America:

During the spring of 2004, I was promoted to Full Professor.

I resumed my duties as Department Chair as of Summer, 2006.