His professional experience covers the areas of education, psychology, program management, health and human services, and criminal justice. He began his 15 year career providing counseling and intervention services in a state mental health institution as a psychiatric technician while completing his undergraduate degree. Shortly after receiving his undergraduate degree, he took on the duties of outpatient counseling and case management services for the adult mentally ill population as a case manager. He quickly observed that there were children involved in the lives of most of his adult clients and became interested in the needs of children as well. Enthused by his insight, he began performing crisis intervention services for youth in at-risk communities on inpatient and outpatient terms. In efforts to serve the adult and youth populations in low-socioeconomic, disadvantaged communities, he has worked on the local, state, and federal levels.
For close to two years as the site director/lead teacher, he managed a 21st Century Community Learning Center afterschool program, serving Pre-K to 8th grade students, located in downtown DC. For three and half years, he worked as a program specialist for the Department of Health and Human Services, Mentoring Children of Prisoners Program and he currently serves as a program manager for the Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Education Specialist and Master of Education degrees in education from Tennessee Technological University, and an MBA from the University of Phoenix. Currently, he is pursuing an education doctorate in the Human and Organizational Learning Program at The George Washington University, Graduate School of Education and Human Development.
