Tim has a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education, a master’s degree in Elementary Education, Curriculum & Instruction, and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Educational Administration. He is a retired educator with 7 years of experience in the classroom, in both an elementary and middle school structure. Tim was an elementary principal for over 20 years, and in his final three years in the district, he worked in the central office as a Title Grants Officer, Chief Safety Officer, District Data Coordinator, and Central Registrar. In this role, Tim wrote the Consolidated Application for his district for two years, oversaw the UPK Grant, and facilitated the Title IV Targeted Grant for the district. In these various roles, Tim worked in a variety of rural school communities. He understands firsthand the challenges that rural school communities face. Tim also understands and has worked through the financial constraints as well as the impact on personnel that unfunded mandates present for districts, and how dependent schools are on securing grant funding to help offset these impacts.

Tim has been involved in Early Childhood Education for over 15 years. He was able to expand his districts’ UPK program significantly during his tenure as elementary principal and help them earn his school’s UPK program an “exemplary” rating from NYSED. After retirement, Tim works with Organizational Harmony to help school districts create, expand, or convert half-day programming to full-day programming. Tim has been an active member of the New York State PreK–Third Grade Administrators’ Association (NYSP3AA), a group of administrators from varied backgrounds and specialties. NYSP3AA provided guidance, support, and advocacy to other administrators across New York State who supervise early childhood programming. In this role, Tim held quarterly regional meetings of NYSP3AA in Syracuse, NY, and worked closely with the Office of Early Learning to help develop policy, provide training and mentoring to support any new initiatives from OEL, respond to districts’ concerns, and advocate for additional funding from NYSED and the legislature. Tim served on the Board of Directors for NYSP3AA for eight years, until the group was disbanded late last year.

Tim is an Adjunct Lecturer at the State University of New York at Cortland, where he serves as a college supervisor for student teachers in the Early Childhood/Childhood Education Programs. In this role, Tim interfaces with both prospective teachers as well as current teachers and administrators, thereby gathering and articulating strengths, and challenges amongst student teacher candidates as well as within the college’s education department to the appropriate personnel at the University.

Tim has experience in the management sector of the food service industry. Tim has used this experience to help schools secure necessary food service equipment through grant sources.

Tim is a member of the Chenango Bridge Fire Company in Binghamton, NY, and serves as their grant writer and fundraising coordinator. Tim has successfully secured grant funding from local and state government agencies, as well as from national foundations.