—— Teaching

Hands on the tools.

A 5/5 load across five colleges at Purdue University Northwest, roughly 240 students a year. Project based, active and agile, and built so students leave with something they made.

—— Teaching appointments

In the classroom.

2025–Present

Purdue University Northwest

Continuing Lecturer · Visual Communication & Design

Media production, visual communication, arts integration, and emerging technologies.

2023–2025

Purdue University Northwest

Visiting Instructor

Integrated arts education, design, television production, scriptwriting, theater, and business communication.

2019–2021

Calumet College of St. Joseph

Assistant Professor & Program Director · Digital & Studio Arts

Arts curriculum, studio facilities, faculty supervision, and student media production.

2018–2023

Ivy Tech Community College

Adjunct Professor · Communication

Workplace and interpersonal communication, organizational leadership, public speaking, and dual-credit instruction.

2013–2016

Purdue University Northwest

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Public speaking, interpersonal and small-group communication, and theater appreciation.

2013

Charter School of the Dunes

Utility Teacher

2000–2002

Crown Point Community Schools

Utility Teacher & Head Coach

Head freshman wrestling coach · Head eighth-grade football coach.

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—— Courses & areas

01

Visual Communication

Design fundamentals through applied client work. Typography, composition, systems thinking, and the Adobe suite as instruments rather than menus.

02

Art & Theater History

Looking as a discipline. How images have carried argument and belief, and why that still governs what students make now.

03

Technical Theater

Performance as a technology of its moment. Stagecraft, dramaturgy, and the long argument about what an audience is for.

04

Arts + STEM Integration

Where making and measuring meet. Project based work that refuses the split between the studio and the lab.

05

Media Production & Post

Premiere, After Effects, and the full post pipeline. Story first, then the timeline. Adobe Certified Professional.

06

Brand Communication

Writing and speaking that survives contact with a real workplace. Clarity, audience, and the courage to say the thing.

07

Design Thinking

Framing problems before solving them. Research, prototyping, and the discipline of throwing away your first good idea.

08

Agile Methods

Working in increments with real constraints. Backed by CAPM certification and an MBA in project management underway.

09

Adobe & AI Workshops

Hands-on sessions across Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, plus Copilot, Google AI Studio, ChatGPT, Nana Banana, Midjourney, and Firefly.

—— Bring me in

Guest lectures, workshops, whole curricula.

Faculty development, AI integration, and course design for programs that want to do this well rather than quickly.