OUR TEAM
Meet the people who make XYZ Textbooks possible

Amy Jacobs/VP of Sales and Marketing
Favorite thing about working for MathTV and XYZ Textbooks? The people working here, the atmosphere and being a positive solution for understanding developmental math.
Year started with company: 2009
Major: English
Pets or kids? 3 kids, 3 dogs, a bunny and a fish.
Favorite job Other than XYZ Textbooks, Camp Counselor at Walton's Grizzly Lodge Summer Camp

Rachael /Operations Manager, Sales and HR
Favorite thing about working for MathTV and XYZ Textbooks? Flexibility, feeling appreciated, lunch on Thursdays!
Year started with company: 2010
Major: Nutrition
Favorite thing to do on the weekends: Wine tasting

Charles P. McKeague/Owner, Author, Video Tutor
Favorite thing about working for MathTV and XYZ Textbooks? The people working here, and the flexibility of the website. No matter what we want to do, there is a place for it on the website. For an author, it is a dream come true.
Year started with company: 2006
Major: Mathematics
Pets or kids? Two children, seven grandchildren.
Favorite website: e-chords.com
Favorite pastime:Putting videos on YouTube and reading the comments people make.
Favorite vacation: Going to Hawaii with the grandkids!
Favorite quote: If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you're right!

Katherine HS/Editor and Designer
Favorite thing about working for MathTV and XYZ Textbooks? Multifaceted work days, opportunities to be creative
Year started with company: 2010
Major: Exercise Science
Pets or kids? Supergirl Alana!
Irrational fear: Rogue commas
Favorite activity: Climbing mountains
Favorite quote: "A line is a dot going for a walk." -Paul Klee





Jim Rozsa/Sales

Mr. McKeague /Owner, Author, Video Tutor
Favorite thing about working for XYZ Textbooks? The people working here, and the flexibility of the website. No matter what we want to do, there is a place for it on the website. For an author, it is a dream come true.
Major: Mathematics
Pets or kids? Two children, seven grandchildren.
Favorite website: e-chords.com
Favorite vacation: Going to Hawaii with the grandkids!
Favorite quote: If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you're right!

Octabio /Video Tutor
Major at Harvard: Mathematics
Favorite website: spaceweather.com/flybys
Favorite hobby: Playing quidditch
Favorite quote: "It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one." -George Harrison

Molly S. /Video Tutor
Major at Cal Poly State University: Mathematics
Favorite hobby: I love Bikram Yoga and Running.
Favorite place I have traveled: Costa Rica or Hawaii
Favorite College Course Method of Proofs
Favorite video? Basic Mathematics Fractions Definitions and Properties Example #2 This is definitely my favorite video, because I was just in a silly mood when I made that video.
Favorite quote: "Be happy for this moment, for this moment is your life. "

Joshua /Video Tutor
Major at Cal Poly State University: BioMedical Engineering
Pets or kids? 2 Dogs: Buckshot, Black lab/pitbull; Willie Nelson black lab/border collie
Favorite website: theonion.com
Pet peeve: using "Pinterest" as an adjective (e.g. Did you see the pictures? It was such a Pinterest wedding.)
Favorite quote: "Cogito ergo sum" -Rene Descartes

Stephanie /Video Tutor
Major at NYU: Double major: business and mathematics
Favorie flavor of ice cream: Spumoni
Favorite Pasttime: Dancing
Favorite quote: "We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." -Japanese Proverb

Lauren /Video Tutor
Major at Cal Poly State University: Agricultural Business/Ag Communications
Favorite Food: Tri-tip and potatoes!
Favorite website: Pinterest. Sorry Joshua!
Favorite quote: "Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Bernard Baruch

Mr. Schwennicke /Video Tutor
Major: Math, of course!
Favorite Hobby: Surfing, my only real hobby.
Favorite place I have traveled: Chile
Favorite Food: Anything Mexican
Favorite College Course: Number Theory
Favorite quote? "If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed as an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!" - Henry David Thoreau "Life Without Principle"

Gordon /Video Tutor
Major at Stanford: Double major in mathematics and spanish
Favorite song: Feel it by Passafire
Favorite food: Chicken mole
Favorite hobby: Trail running
Favorite website: lifehacker.com
Favorite quote "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious (Ich habe keine besondere Begabung, sondern bin nur leidenschaftlich neugierig" - Einstein

Lauren D. /Video Tutor
Major at Cal Poly State University: Liberal Studies, Math Minor
Favorite Candy: Peanut Butter M&M's
Favorite website: www.teacherspayteachers.com - Best teacher resource ever!!!
Favorite quote: "Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Julieta /Video Tutor
Major at UC Merced: Biology (emphasis Human Bio)
Things I would like to do: work in the Medical field, join the Peace Corps, go to the FIFA world cup in Brasil, learn how to play guitar, live in Europe
Favorite website: tumblr.com
Favorite quote: "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different" -Coco Chanel