Our Team

Mark became the owner of the Mathnasium Learning Centers in Lakeville and Savage in October 2009. He applied his lifelong love of math by earning an engineering degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in the top 20% of his class. He followed up with six years in the Army Corps of Engineers as a combat engineer, leading numerous construction projects. Mark undertook advanced Engineering training at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, where he passed and registered as a Professional Engineer. Following two years with the Industrial Water Treatment Company NALCO, Mark entered the financial services business opening his own successful Edward Jones office which was his initiation to community involvement and the small business environment. Mark received his Certified Investment Management Analyst designation (CIMA) from the Wharton School and has held the positions of Senior Vice President, Piper Capital Management; Regional Vice President, Aetna Financial; and Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo Investments. Mark is thoroughly enjoying his new role with Mathnasium and has become very involved in the Lakeville, Apple Valley, Savage, and Prior Lake communities. He loves seeing the flash of understanding in the eyes of the Mathnasium students and is proud to be providing the Mathnasium Method to his communities.

Alecia is a student at the University of Minnesota where she is working toward her bachelor degree in Mathematics with an Actuarial Science emphasis. She plans to use this degree to pursue a career as an Actuary. For the past 5 years, she has been working with children of varying ages in learning environments. She loves working with children and has a passion for math, and the combination led her to Mathnasium. Alecia is passionate about getting the curriculum just right for every student.

Dawn is a native Twin Citian who graduated from Winona State University with a secondary math education degree. She has taught junior high math and English, been a substitute teacher, and taught and tutored several math classes for area home educated students. She is married, and has home schooled her own five children for 14 years.

Terri grew up in the Twin Cities and went on to graduate from the University of North Dakota earning a BS in Mathematics. She has worked in positions for an accounting firm, a benefits consultant and an engineering consulting firm; bringing a broad base of real life experiences to the math tutoring world. She has recently been a private math tutoring for all grade levels and successfully home schooled her own five children in math through high school. Terri loves to light the learning light bulb in kids and share in their inspiration.

Bill earned a BS in mathematics and physics from the University of Minnesota, Duluth. After a year of work as an Industrial Engineer for US Steel, he entered graduate school at the University of Minnesota in Computer Science. Bill completed an MS degree and went to work as a Software Engineer at Sperry Univac. He continued to take courses in mathematics for 2 more years while working, eventually completing 90 credits in math. Bill worked for Sperry, and its successor companies for 43 years as a Software Engineer, Software Manager, and Engineering Manager. He retired in 2006 and felt as if he was wasting his education in retirement. Seeing an ad for an instructor at Mathnasium, and loving children, Bill jumped at this opportunity to help kids.

Caleb is a graduate of St Olaf who also lived in Budapest Hungary for a short time studying the principles of higher level Calculus and Algebra. Caleb is currently the Head AVID Tutor for the Lakeville School District. Caleb has a keen math mind and aspires to get accepted to graduate school to earn his Masters of Architecture. Caleb lives in St Paul with his 120 pound "lapdog" Cooper and his favorite hobby is getting his heart broken year after year by all Minnesota sports franchises.

Mac has completed two years of college at the University of Minnesota majoring in Math-Actuarial Science. Mac has excelled in math courses throughout his education taking several A.P. math and stats courses at Apple Valley High School, along with competing on the math team all four years. At the U of M he has completed calc I-IV along with several Actuarial and Computer science courses, and is a member of the Actuary Club. Throughout High School Mac refereed and coached youth basketball and tutored 1st graders in reading. He also participated in multiple extra-curricular activities and received the prestigious AAA Award as a Senior at Apple Valley. With Mac’s previous experiences and love of kids, he is very excited to work with the Mathnasium students.