He received a B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Stony Brook University. After several years of working as a telecommunications engineer he received an M.S.T. degree in mathematics from Florida Atlantic University. He has taught at both the high school and college level. He has led two academic travel abroad tours to Greece, Turkey and Southern Italy (2010) and Northern Italy (2011), as part of a History of Mathematics course. He co-edited Writing the History of Mathematical Notation: 1483-1700 (Docent Press, 2015). His current interests include reading original sources in the history of mathematics.