Bryan Murphy, MA

Bryan graduated as Phi Beta Kappa with his Bachelor of Arts in Economics at UConn Storrs and went on to earn his Master of Education from Sacred Heart University. He has nearly a decade of experience as an educator in Connecticut and New York, completing his student teaching in Bridgeport in 2015, working as a Gates Foundation Scholar in Bridgeport afterwards, going to work at a New York City public school in the South Bronx as an English teacher for 4 years, and returning to Connecticut to work for Kelly Education Services in Danbury during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was during the lockdown that Bryan began taking classes on data analysis, data science, Python programming and machine learning, but he's always been a life-long tech enthusiast. A registered member of the Computer Science Teachers Association and the local Lower Hudson Valley chapter, and a Microsoft certified Power BI Data Analyst Associate with certificates in Google Data Analytics and R for Data Science and Analysis, Bryan is excited to take his career to the next level at the Spire School as their Computer Science teacher for the 2024-2025 school year!

In addition to his tech interests, Bryan is an avid home cook with a passion for experimentation and skill development. He plans on introducing his students at Spire to everything from dehydrating to pickling and lacto-fermentation to the finer points of bread dough hydration and even how to cook a full-course chicken dinner entirely in a microwave using the unique thermal properties of clay pottery. As such, Bryan looks forward to his dual role at Spire in the classroom and in the kitchen!

When he's not trying a new historical recipe, fiddling with a computer or hitting up the new arcade at the Danbury Fair Mall, Bryan enjoys spending time with his Pomeranian and trawling the foreign film sections of his 38 different streaming subscriptions. He enjoys reading the instruction manuals to board games that he'll probably never play, and the dungeon's master guides, to pen and paper table-top role-playing games no one has actually played since the early 90s.