Matt is excited to join the SOAR Community this school year as a 5^th Grade Teacher! This is his 6^th Year Teaching, and he comes from a long line of educators in his family, including his mom who also taught 5^th Grade for 37 Years before retiring. His teaching career actually started 6 Years ago in Green Valley Ranch when he started working at Omar D Blair Charter School down the road where he taught 6^th Grade for 2 Years. Then, he went to Highline Academy - Northeast (also in GVR) for 1 Year as a 5^th Grade Teacher. He then had the opportunity to experience the Public Education Sector when he went to Aurora Public Schools for 2 Years where he worked with 5^th Grade and most recently 3^rd Grade. He is so excited to come back to the community that he first served 6 Years ago and an area that he has so much love and respect for the community. 

Matt is a life long learner, holding 4 College Degrees including: Bachelor of Science - Marketing, MBA - Human Resource Management, PhD (ABD) - Organizational Leadership, and successful completion of a Teacher Preparation Program as he attained his Teaching License. He has his Professional Teaching License for the state of Colorado and he is also currently going back to school to get his Masters in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education (CLDE) at Adams State University. Prior to teaching, Matt had a successful career in Apparel Retail where he was an Executive Vice President and Regional Director for such companies as GAP, Brooks Brothers, J.Crew, and Aeropostale. 

From the East Coast, Matt grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania and then moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for college. Upon graduating, he launched his apparel career when he was offered a position as Store Director of Visuals and Merchandising for the Aeropostale Times Square Flagship store located in New York City, New York where he would live for 12 Years until then moving to Seattle, Washington to work as a Regional Director with Brooks Brothers. Life then took him closer to family when he was offered the opportunity to move to Denver, Colorado to be the Regional Vice President for GAP, Inc. where he was in charge of all stores West of the Mississippi River and Western Canada. Matt ran a Sales Portfolio of $650M and was in charge of 450 Stores. Throughout this time, Matt learned that in order to achieve results, you have to collaborate with others and strive to improve a little bit every day for the good of yourself and those that you work alongside.