Education
- BS IPFW 1999
- MS IPFW 2003
- Education Specialist Indiana University 2006
- PhD Indiana State University 2018 Dissertation – Predicting Successful Referenda (Logistic Regression)
Accomplishments
Fremont (Business Manager)
- Increased general fund balance from $115,924.02 To $854,968.21 from October 2013 to June 2016
- Increased CPF fund balance from $249,441.44 To $1,319,592.30 from October 2013 to June 2016
- Increased Transportation fund balance from $375,722.58 to $897,842.49 from October 2013 to June 2016
- Tax rate level while completing multiple projects
- Part of a successful operation referendum
Warsaw (Chief Financial Officer)
- Increased CPF/Operations fund from $1,831,002.73 to $2,200,562.58 July 2016 to June 2018
- Tax rate level while completing multiple projects
Whitko (Superintendent)
- Increased general/education fund balance from $1,377,937.43 to $3,572,325.83 from October 2018 to December 2020
- Increased Rainy Day Fund from $338,312.36 to $1,000,000 from October 2018 to December 2020
- Received approximately $4MM in grants
- Increased teacher salary by an average of 6.73% during two year contract.
- Increased starting teacher salary to $40,000 in 2020-21 school year
- Decreased health insurance rates approximately 15.7% for CY 2019 premium.
- Opened Whitko Career Academy, a state of the art career and technical education facility as part of Whitko Community Schools.