Until recently, I was the Executive Director of the National Education Technology Funding Corporation (Eddie Tech), a private, non-profit organization working to help local public school districts utilize federal mechanisms to access more cost-effective financing for school construction and renovation. Previously, I was Executive Director of Philadelphia Forward, a citizens' organization promoting tax, government, and ethics reform. Philadelphia Forward was instrumental in shaping public policy to improve tax fairness, reduce wage and business taxes, and enact ethics reforms. I served on the Tax Reform Commission in 2003 and was director of financial and policy analysis under former City Controller Jonathan Saidel. I have written two books on baseball and one book on Philadelphia government. A lifelong Philadelphian, product of our public schools (a Northeast High graduate), and public school parent, I grew up in Northeast Philadelphia. I live in the Fitler Square neighborhood with my wife and three young children.