Music Educator:
Director of Music
The Beacon School (NYC DOE)| New York, NY
September 2025 – Present
Responsibilities include:
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Designing and implementing a four-year, popular music and jazz repertoire-based curriculum.
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Introducing a flipped classroom model using self-produced instructional videos and professionally produced music-minus-one play-along recordings to extend learning beyond the classroom.
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Increasing student enrollment, participation, ownership, motivation, and accountability through audio and video recording projects.
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Overseeing the academic, administrative, and budgetary aspects of a comprehensive music program.
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Examples of teaching media and student performances linked here.
Music and Digital Media Teacher
Bronx Compass High School (NYC DOE)| Bronx, NY
September 2018 – June 2025
Responsibilities included:
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Designing and implementing a hip hop and popular music-focused music composition and keyboard course for general education high school students.
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Providing technology-centered instruction that scaffolded music learning, creativity, and performance for beginning music students.
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Increasing students' understanding of musical, cultural, and historical contexts through listening, reading, discussion, and analysis of contemporary artists and music journalism.
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Designing and implementing original digital media courses focused on photography, video production, and podcasting.
Examples of teaching media and student performances linked here.
Director of Instrumental Music
Xavier High School | New York, NY
August 2007 – June 2018
Responsibilities included:
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Directing all instrumental ensembles while overseeing the academic, administrative, and budgetary aspects of a comprehensive jazz program.
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Designing and implementing a four-year, jazz repertoire-based curriculum.
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Developing an audio production curriculum and recording studio within existing operating and capital budgets.
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Introducing a flipped classroom model using self-produced instructional videos and professionally produced music-minus-one play-along recordings to extend learning beyond the classroom.
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Increasing student enrollment, participation, ownership, motivation, and accountability through audio and video recording projects distributed online and in physical media.
Examples of student performances linked here.
Lecturer (1999–2001);
Teaching Assistant (1996–1999)
University of Miami Frost School of Music | Coral Gables, FL
August 1996 – May 2001
Undergraduate and graduate courses taught:
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Studio electric bass
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Studio upright bass
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Jazz ensembles
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Jazz history
Adjunct Professor
Miami Dade College | Miami, FL
August 1996 – June 2000
While pursuing doctoral studies full-time at the University of Miami, I taught undergraduate courses at the New World–Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College (then Miami-Dade Community College).
Courses taught:
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Studio electric bass
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Jazz history