About Me

I wanted to take a brief moment to tell you a little about myself which will help bring some clarity to my future blog posts regarding New Media and New Literacies as they apply to me in my work and in my personal life. My full time occupation is at the college level where I teach courses related to agricultural equipment and engineering technology. Basically, I work with students pursuing careers where they will operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair farm equipment (tractors, combines, hay tools, tillage and seeding equipment, etc), construction equipment (backhoes, bulldozers, wheel loaders, excavators, etc), as well as lawn and garden equipment. I have been doing this for approximately 15 years. In addition, when the normal college semesters are over and students are home on break, I do some additional teaching in the form of industry training for the Bobcat Equipment Company. Beyond that I am a pretty "average" person. I have two kids (5 and 1) with a wonderful wife, a pretty average house that I paid an above average price for, two vehicles with too many miles, etc. In my spare time, which is very little, I enjoy golfing, snowmobiling, and a little gaming on my computer.