Professional Growth and Development
Conferences
- ORMATYC Conference: 2026, 2025, 2023, 2022, 2019. Attended over multiple years the ORegon Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges (ORMATYC) Conference. In 2025, presented a talk entitled "Digit Permutation Without Apology" which summarizes some research in my most recently published paper.
- EDUCAUSE Annual Conference: November 2024. Virtually attended the EDUCAUSE 2024 Online conference to gain insights into the influence of artificial intelligence on present, and possible futures of, educational practice.
- Northwest Regional Mathematics Conference: April 2024. Attended the Northwest Regional Mathematics Conference which is a joint conference involving the AMATYC chapters of Oregon and Washington. Learned about simulation-based inference techniques for introductory statistics courses and have implemented them in a statistical software suite designed for student use.
- Pacific Northwest Great Teaching Seminar: June 16-20, 2019. Attended the Pacific Northwest Great Teaching Seminar: a multidisciplinary and highly interactive experience where educators share their innovations, and ideas for solutions to difficult problems encountered in the community college classroom.
- $CMC^3$ Recreational Mathematics Conference: April 27th and 28th, 2018. Attended the California Mathematics Council of Community Colleges Recreational Mathematics Conference held at Lake Tahoe Community College.
- Active Learning Conference: January 12th, 2018. Attended a multidisciplinary Active Learning Conference hosted by Merced College.
Education Coursework and Other Training
- MTH 108 Instructor Training: August 2025. Attended the the MTH 108 instructor training to acquire knowledge and experience of existing course content and materials. With this training I may offer support dual-credit instructors in our local high schools.
- Quality Matters Certificate: December 2023. Earned the QM certificate: Teaching Online-An Introduction to Online Delivery (TOL). Took this course as a refresher and to keep up with online learning resources.
- Online Course Development: (EDUC 50) Columbia College, Spring 2018. Took this course to gain facility with online learning resources and to prepare for teaching and developing online courses when needed by the department.
Webinars
- Textbook Affordability Plan Examples: February 23rd, 2021. An OpenOregon webinar showcasing finished textbook affordability plans which comply with Oregon's HB 2213.
- Innovative Textbook Procurement Models: February 19th, 2021 An OpenOregon webinar featuring successful yet non-traditional textbook and materials procurement models at two different institutions. Both models presented are inclusive of all stakeholders (students, faculty, library, campus bookstore) and allow for any faculty-chosen materials including OERs and commercially-produced materials.
Certifications
- ACCJC Accreditation Basics Certificate: September 6th, 2017
- Level I and Level II CRLA Tutoring Certificates. 1996,1997