My passion for serving Education started right out of college teaching Secondary Education in Texas, Biology, History and Coaching and eventually moving into Curriculum & Instruction, Technology, and Leading an effort to train Educators across Texas how infuse technology into their instructional practices having served at Highland Park ISD and Allen ISD. My passion then extended into building five EdTech companies eventually selling and transitioning key products to both Microsoft and Google. Over my 26-year career, I am constantly focused on improving learning opportunities for all learners, empowering educators in all roles to do more with better data at their fingertips and build solutions that do more to keep educators teaching and serving students across the K12 landscape. I am proud that over 15 years of those years have been in service to special education and 10 years in solving interoperability, with some of that time overlapping. I am driven by growing highly talented and adaptive teams focused on solving amazing challenges, especially those left unsolved. I am equally motivated to work alongside Education focused organizations, Ministries/Departments of Education, EdTech Vendors, and Strategic Partners to improve process, solutions, product, and platform offerings that best serve their efforts to realize the same mission – improve the learning experience for everyone.
In 2022, having the chance to re-acquire the Authentica Solutions brand and two key teams with products from Google, set up the opportunity for an Authentica 2.0 and a second chance to impact learning, data, intelligence, and jump back into solving complex challenges while ensuring that ownership of all data remains where it originates, with K12 and HED customers. We being work and launched Authentica seed™, Education Intelligence Platform and began work on the design of a stealth mode solution called Authentica reach™. I am excited to work alongside and have the opportunity to lead Authentica again with Gene Garcia, CTO – Founder and a great team of amazing humans.
