After graduating from the University of Texas with a semi-useless humanities degree, I joined Teach for America and moved to Baltimore, Maryland to teach middle school history. Over the next 3 years, I fell in love with teaching, which was by far the hardest thing I have ever done.

While I was teaching, I discovered that planning lessons is one of the most time-consuming parts of the job, mostly due to tedious busy work. So, in 2012, another teacher and I set out to build the lesson planning app of our dreams. We wanted to help teachers ignore that busy work and focus on what actually matters: designing exceptional lessons for their students.

We did that. For the past ten years I’ve served as co-founder of Common Curriculum. At first, I started as the non-technical member of the team, raising money and closing sales. But over the last decade I learned to code and design, have had a hand in basically every feature of our app, and have personally built a few of them myself. I also helped refine our data-driven product development and feedback cycle, and have learned first-hand the value of listening deeply to your customers. Finally, I ran our entire sales funnel while doing all that, and grew the company to profitability on a shoestring marketing budget.

As much as I love Common Curriculum, I know in my heart that it’s time for me to work on something new.

So, now I’m looking to bring a decade’s worth of experience in design, development, and leadership to building software that helps people simplify complex problems and do what they love most.

In my free time I’m an inveterate nerd, playing in and running multiple Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. I also love Magic: The Gathering, reading long biographies of Ulysses S. Grant, and long-distance running.

Pie is better than cake. The last 3 episodes of Battlestar Galactica never happened. I only made it to Season 2 of Game of Thrones, because the books were better. Fight me.

Co-Founder, Designer, Developer, Sales, & Marketing

Common Curriculum

2012 – 2022