This is my 19th year to teach and my 12th year at Martin High School.  When embarking on my professional career, I did not start out with the goal of being a teacher.  I graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.  My major is Administrative Management.  My first two years after college were spent with a very large insurance firm in Austin.  I not only sold insurance, but I was also a registered representive to sell securities.  Two years later, I went to work for Wal-Mart as an assistant manager with the goal of using my degree to its fullest extent.  After another two years I asked myself what I enjoyed doing professionally.  In insurance, I enjoyed teaching families how they could successfully plan for and implement that plan to reach the goals they had towards retirement. In retail management I enjoyed teaching department managers how they could run their area of the store at a profit in the same way that they might if it were there own business.  I had my answer -- I enjoyed teaching others how to be successful. In the summer of 1989  I enrolled at UTA.  By the end of the fall semester in 1990, I had completed 63 hours as a degreed undergraduate (certified to teach Economics and Secondary Mathematics) and had accepted a position to teach 7th grade Math at Young Jr. High.  In the fall of 1997, when the 9th grade moved up to the high school campus, I moved too.  I have happily been here ever since.  It is a joy and privelege to have the opportunity to work with such a fine faculty and some of the finest students in North Texas.  I also am an adjunct instructor for the SE campus of TCC.  I have taught developmental classes for the last 11 years, helping students prepare for College Algebra