He joined the EPS faculty at the University of Miami in 2013. Prior to joining the EPS faculty, he received his Ph.D. from the Quantitative Methods in Education program in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota. In the RME program at the University of Miami, he teaches courses on educational measurement and psychometric theory and serves as a statistical consultant for the Research Methodology Services component of the Dunspaugh-Dalton Community and Educational Well-Being (CEW) Research Center.