About me
I am a father of three beautiful little girls and husband to a wonderful wife. I love woodworking, reading, games, gardening, and hiking. I have earned my Eagle scout award, black belt, and several ballroom dance medals. I enjoy learning new things and dabble in quite a variety of topics.
I am regularly involved in my community in several capacities. I have been in the leadership of a national youth organization and in teaching religion courses. I occasionally have a table at the local farmer's market.
Work Experience
I have 6 years of teaching experience at the university level, teaching courses in Linguistics and ESL. I currently teach Into to linguistics at UGA but, have taught phonetics/phonology at BYU. My love fore teaching is evident in my ranking as the number one faculty at all of UGA according to RateMyProfessor.com. During my masters program I taught intermediate level courses for adult learners of English at Utah Valley University.
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I have completed a lot of non-pay work during my graduate studies such as creating a 6 part Excel series, and developing a program of observation, evaluation, and feedback for TA's and instructors. I have also work on some research projects for faculty on campus ranging from GIS mapping, corpus assembly and dissemination, and transcription efforts.
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I have also spent several years working in private companies such as the 4 years as a V.P. of Customer Service at Legally Mine, where I was responsible for hiring, firing, training, and managing two departments. I also produced an extensive battery of training materials from scratch and formulated all the SOP for the fulfillment side of the company which is still in use today.
Education Experience
I have 6 years of teaching experience at the university level, teaching courses in Linguistics and ESL. I have done my student teaching for my MAT at Dacula highschool in US history. I have also done a significant amount of extra-curricular teaching of my own volition such as a 6 part seminar on using Excel, courses on religion for the local seminary, and a host of hobby based teaching from woodworking to soccer.
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I have been very active in pursuing growth opportunities for myself as well as promoting them for others. I have completed and gifted endorsement through my MAT and the Certificate of University Teaching. The Center for Teaching and Learning at UGA taught me how to constructively mediate feedback from the students to the instructor had I have done this for several faculty at UGA with great results. I have also work on some research projects for faculty on campus ranging from GIS mapping, corpus assembly and dissemination, and transcription efforts.
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I have also spent several years working in private companies such as the 4 years as a V.P. of Customer Service at Legally Mine, where I was responsible for hiring, firing, training, and managing two departments. I also produced an extensive battery of training materials from scratch and formulated all the SOP for the fulfillment side of the company which is still in use today.
Extra Curricular
I love learning new things. I have about a score of educational YouTube channels to edify myself and learn new skills from plumbing and amateur smithing to history and civil engineering. I enjoy a wide range of activities like woodworking and carpentry, I have many medals for ballroom dancing, I've played soccer for two decades, I have a litany of favorite authors, consider my self quite the cook, and will talk for hours about video games, movies, and other nerd stuff. Due to living in Korea for two years as part of a service mission I am conversant in Korean and between my linguistics programs at BYU and UGA I am also ASL proficient and have dabbled in a half dozen other languages from Hausa to Tongan.
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Signing Video
Korean Video
