James Nickel

      James Nickel has a B.A. (mathematics); B.Th., B.Miss. (theology); and M.A. (education), has taught high school mathematics in the late 1970s in Hawaii and in the 1980s in Australia. He also has nearly 30 years of experience in Information Technology holding positions from programmer to systems analyst. In the 1970s, he worked for the United States Navy designing test software for the F14-A Tomcat and the Tomahawk Cruise Missile at Pt. Mugu Air Station in California. He is the author of Mathematics: Is God Silent? (Ross House Books) and the forthcoming Mathematics: Building on Foundations. He is devoting his "senior years" to the cause of Biblical Christian education. He is currently Dean of the School of Mathematics for the proposed distance learning school Patria Academy International, a division of Patria Institute, LLC, and he teaches classes in Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Pre-calculus, and Calculus at various venues in Wenatchee, Washington. He lives with his family in Wenatchee, W A.