I am a Multi-Media Technologies expert and veteran Combat Systems engineer with extensive leadership and technical training excellence. I devoted 20 years of honorable service to the United States Navy and been awarded multiple distinguished career awards to include 11 naval Achievement and Commendation medals. My unprecedented passion for optimizing evaluative and quantitative learning techniques for successful learning inspired acquisition of a Master of Science in Education and Technology to include a graduate level specialization in E-Teaching and Learning.

Alfonso Esquer is the Program Director for Criminal Justice and a Professor in the program. After serving eight years in the U.S. Marine Corps, he began his law enforcement career with the Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration as a criminal investigator, special agent with his primary mission was to enforce the U.S. drug laws and investigate high scale domestic and international drug trafficking organizations.

Alfonso Esquer is the Program Director for Criminal Justice and a Professor in the program. After serving eight years in the U.S. Marine Corps, he began his law enforcement career with the Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration as a criminal investigator, special agent with his primary mission was to enforce the U.S. drug laws and investigate high scale domestic and international drug trafficking organizations.

My wife Paige and I have been married for 32 years. Paige is a retired Financial Consultant. Our oldest son Matt is the President of Focused Mission Financial, and our other son Jake sells real estate.

My passions in my spare time are outdoor activities, travel, and officiating basketball. I retired as an NCAA Official and continue to officiate for high schools.

As an alumnus of PLNU, it is great working for a faith-based University. I look forward to our journey together in the weeks to come!

Dr. Amanda Segovia-Hale serves as a Director of Professional Learning in the Office of Educational Services for San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD). SDUSD is the second-largest school district in California, serving more than 140,000 preschool through12 grade students at more than 200 schools and public charter schools. Dr. Segovia-Hale began her career as an elementary school teacher. She served as a mentor teacher, Instructional Coach, Assistant Principal, and Principal. She was grateful to have teachers who genuinely cared about her and helped to grow in her learning and faith.

Susan Laughlin is the Founder and CEO of Appel Foods, LLC. She started her specialty food business in March of 2017, and scaled the business nationally, and to Canada, in the first year of operations. Appel Foods houses the brand Nut Crumbs, which is the first nut-based bread crumb alternative to hit the market. Her previous experience ranges from Director of Financial Services in a university setting, Operations Management in an international bridge engineering firm, Product Development in the fashion industry, and Chief Financial Officer in two start-ups.

For over 12 years, Prof. Karris has been a counselor working with youth, families, couples, and individuals. He began in NY working as a therapist intern at Nyack College performing individual and group therapy with adolescents. At the same time, he was an intern at Mental Health of Rockland County in NY, performing individual and group therapy with the severely mentally ill population.

Chuck Downing began teaching at Monte Vista High School in 1973. He was department chair from 1981- 1995 and twice received Golden Apple Awards by student voting. He has been "San Diego County Teacher of the Year" and won the CIBA-GEIGY Award for Excellence in Science Teaching from NSTA. He was a Christa McAuliffe Fellow in 1992, and he won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching in 1993. In 1994 he was named as a participant in Access Excellence for Biology teachers. In 1996 he received his Ph.D.