Pete Conner received his B.S. in Secondary Mathematics Education at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD and master’s in educational leadership from Concordia University, Portland, OR. His first career led him to Vice President of Bank Operations at Sandy Spring Bank Corp, Olney, MD. Later he ventured into systems engineering where he partnered in a medical billing startup IOMonitoring, LLC, Silver Spring, MD. After thirty years of management in these fields, he and his wife Amy and their three childrern moved to Sarasota, FL. Pete took on the responsibility of director of technology at Sarasota Christian School and eventually added the role of high school principal. Just before retiring, he circled back to his first love of teaching mathematics. Finally, he has taken on the role of headmaster of Liberty Christian Academy of Sarasota.