About Paul

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I spent sixteen years as an engineering contractor supporting the U.S. Navy's submarine program, then earned a Master's in Teaching, with student teaching experience in secondary mathematics. Rather than going into the classroom, I ended up applying what I learned about adult learning and instruction to a different kind of teaching — years as a solutions architect, a role built around educating enterprise customers on complex technical systems. Cognitive Marksmanship is where all of that meets firearms instruction.

  • B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut

  • M.A. in Teaching (Secondary Mathematics), Sacred Heart University, including student teaching experience

  • Postgraduate coursework in adult learning theory, measurement and evaluation, and applied behavior analysis

  • AWS Authorized Instructor, developing and delivering technical certification training at enterprise scale

  • Currently a Senior Solution Architect, applying adult-learning principles to educating enterprise customers on complex technical systems

  • USCCA-certified instructor across several specialties, Range Safety Officer, NRA certification in progress

  • Currently instructing at Vantage Point Firearms, Range & Training Center

Our Approach

I'm not a motor learning researcher — I'm a synthesizer and educator. My job is reading the research on how skills actually develop, and translating it into something a working instructor can use in their next class. Cognitive Marksmanship exists because firearms instruction, as a field, doesn't yet have enough of that bridge — between what the science says about skill acquisition and what happens on the range.