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- Bachelor of Music - Samford University, 2002
- Master of Music - Oklahoma State University, 2005
- Certification Instrumental Music: Class B Elementary/Secondary, Grades P-12, current 2020-2025
- 18 Years experience in Music Education
- Strengths include:
- Recruitment and retention throughout all grade levels
- Excellence in student performance
- Music arranging and composition
- Implementation of technology in logistics and instruction
- Interpersonal skills
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Organization
- Audio and visual (video and graphics) design
- Music theory and performance fundamentals education
- Beginning band
- Percussion education
- Vic Firth Sticks and Mallets Scholastic Educator
- Member of National Association for Music Education
- Member of Alabama Bandmasters Association
- Presentation of professional development sessions:
- Concert percussion (Alabama Bandmasters Association)
- Stick and mallet construction (University of Alabama - Birmingham, Samford University)
- Productivity technology in the band room (Shelby County Band Directors Association)
- Curriculum for Honors level band (Alabama Music Educators Association)
- Performing member of Alabama Winds (2013-2018) - Performed at Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, 2017