I attended local public schools in Pinellas County, graduating from Dixie Hollins High School.  I attended St. Petersburg Junior College then completed my degree in English Education at Florida State University.  I also earned my Master's degree from FSU.

I taught English at Seminole and Northeast High Schools, then I became a school administrator working as an assistant principal at Bay Point Middle and Dixie Hollins High.  I began the Center for Advanced Technologies as its founding director.  After three years there I became a principal at Osceola and Largo Middle Schools as well as the principal of Lakewood High School.  I am now retired from the public schools.

I currently work as an adjuct professor here at SPC.