2006-2017 Senior Director Career and Technical Education Matanuska Susitna Borough School District
Supervise staff, develop and administer curriculum, and budgets for MSBSD Career & Technical Education program (2006-2017)
Obtain and administer grants including Carl Perkins, Youth First, Workforce Investment Act, and Construction Education Foundation (2006-2017)
Responsible for the opening of Mat-Su Career & Technical High School (2006-2007)
Responsible for the opening of Alaska Middle College School in partnership with UAA (2011-2013)
1986-2006 Teacher
Matanuska Susitna Borough School District
Educational Technologist for District, MSBSD (2003-2006)
Educational Technologist, Teeland Middle School, MSBSD (2001-2003)
Teacher, SeeUOnline School, MSBSD (1991-2001)
Technology Literacy Grant Coordinator, Academy of Instruction, MSBSD (1997-1999)
Science Teacher, Colony Middle School, MSBSD (1991-1997)
Agriculture Teacher, Palmer High School, MSBSD (1986-1991)
1986-2017 Successful Business Owner
DePriest Farms Palmer Alaska (1994-2017)
Rosenray’s Alaskan Cuisine & Catering Company Palmer Alaska (1986-1993)
2000-2017 Board Service
Alaska Commission on Post-Secondary Education (Fall 2013-Spring 2017)
Mat Su College Advisory Council (2000-2003) & (2009-Fall 2015)
State of Alaska Board of Agriculture and Conservation (2007-2008)
Mat-Su Borough Economic Development committee member (2009-2013)
State of Alaska Career and Technical Education Plan committee member (2009-2010)
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION
Master’s Degree, Public School Administration
University of Alaska Anchorage 1996
Bachelor of Science, Agriculture Education Biology Minor, Montana State University 1985
Certificate of Pipe Welding Tulsa Welding School, Tulsa, Oklahoma, December 1979
Diploma of Graduation 1978 Palmer High School, Palmer, Alaska 1978 Eagle Scout 1977