Also served as an adjunct professor for Managerial Finance in the Schultz School of Business.

Taught the following courses:Advanced Managerial Finance - MBA ProgramFinancial Management - Undergraduate ProgramFinancial Controls and Systems - Undergraduate ProgramAccounting - Undergraduate Program

Served as Director of Agency Finance and Management Services from 1997-1999.Responsible for school district facility planning and the commissioner’s Reviews and Comments process for all school facility projects in Minnesota. Worked with superintendents, business managers and school board members in development of approvable facility projects funded under alternative facility bonding, health and safety, capital facility bonding, voter approved bonding, QZAB, QSAB and other sources of funding. Managed charter school facilities lease aid program, Integration aid and levies, calculated all Minnesota public libraries aid and levies, developed and calculated all public library maintenance of effort levies. Provided assistance to superintendents and school boards throughout the state on cooperation and consolidation issues and planning. MDE fiscal note coordinator. Prepared financial analysis for House and Senate Education Committees regarding fiscal impact and educational impact of legislative proposals on school districts and charter schools. Member of the Program Finance Budgeting and Payments team at MDE with responsibility of developing Minnesota PK-12 Education Biennial Budgets, supporting documentation, and legislative support since 1990.

Directed all financial aspects of a 3,000 student school district: accounting, payroll, TSA, and a $27.3 million dollar annual budget. Responsible for facilities, transportation, student information, technology, and food service. Assisted in the management of a $36.5 million dollar building remodeling /construction project. Directed, managed and hired professional and clerical staff. Worked with principals and cabinet members in the development of the 2000-01 budgets. Substitute elementary principal when necessary.