I am a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. I am the creator of Bricklayer and am passionate about raising the game for computer science and math across the educational spectrum. For this reason I founded bricklayer.org along with co-founders Betty Love (Math Professor) and Jennifer Winter (math and coding advocate, girl scout leader, and home school parent) .

The mission of bricklayer.org is to actively contribute to the creation of an environment in which education in computational thinking, computer science, math, art and the development of spatial abilities can be achieved across the K12 spectrum (and beyond) using educational models that are engaging, effective, sustainable and scalable.