Administration & leadership
Departmental operations, instructional budgeting, scheduling, faculty hiring and evaluation, assessment, accreditation, and cross-campus collaboration.
Administrator · Curriculum Strategist · Educator
Turning scale into student success.
I am an academic leader and educator who loves the challenge of making complex programs work better for students. I bring together curriculum, people, resources, and evidence to turn ambitious ideas into lasting change.
Why the setting matters
Leading for access and excellence at an urban R1.
The University of Texas at Arlington is a large, diverse research university in one of the nation’s most dynamic metropolitan regions. Biology serves students across the university, including many first-generation students and students balancing significant financial, work, and family responsibilities.
That context shapes my leadership. Academic rigor and broad access are not competing goals. The work is to design curricula, teaching systems, and student pathways that make excellence attainable at scale.
Leadership at institutional scale
I build systems that help students, faculty, and programs succeed.
My work sits at the intersection of academic quality and operational reality. I use data to identify barriers, bring people together around practical solutions, and carry complex initiatives from idea through implementation.
Curriculum & program innovation
New programs, delivery models, curricular pathways, microcredentials, and course portfolios designed around student progression and workforce preparation.
Teaching & student success
Evidence-informed course design, faculty development, high-enrollment gateway reform, online learning, and transparent structures that support student achievement.
Selected initiatives
From persistent problems to measurable change.
Transforming selected core courses
Redesigned selected non-majors core courses for online, accelerated delivery, expanding access while freeing teaching-lab capacity and reducing projected instructional costs by approximately $200,000 in one academic year.
Improving outcomes at scale
Led an evidence-informed gateway-course redesign that produced stronger and more consistent student success across sections and instructors.
Creating flexible paths to a graduate degree
Helped establish the College of Science's first fully online master's program; average time to completion has fallen to approximately 1.7 years.
My approach
Practical strategy, collaborative leadership, and follow-through.
Sustainable academic change requires more than a strong idea. It requires a clear understanding of institutional constraints, meaningful faculty engagement, thoughtful implementation, and honest measurement of results.
Academic administration · Biology education · Program development
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Let’s talk about academic leadership and student success.
I welcome conversations about curriculum, gateway-course redesign, faculty development, program strategy, and collaborative approaches to improving student outcomes.