I am an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. I was born in Anaheim, California in 1971, and except for a 5 year period from 1979-1984, spent my first 23 years in Orange County, CA.
I received a B.A. degree in mathematics from California State University at Fullerton in 1994, then attended graduate school at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. Under the direction of William McCallum, I received my Ph.D. in mathematics in 2000.
I worked for the next two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and then for two more years as a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2004 I joined the Mathematics Department at Monmouth University. My research interests include Algebra, Number Theory, and the mathematics education of future teachers.