David started his career in education in 2000. He has worked primarily in the English language teaching profession at the secondary and tertiary levels. He taught at the high school level in Hungary until 2005. From 2006-2009, he worked for ELS Language Centers as an instructor and academic director at centers located on the Dominican University of California and University of Cincinnati campuses, and then at Michigan State University as Visiting Faculty from 2009-2010. He lived and worked in Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates from 2010 to 2016, teaching in the English Foundations program. Most recently – from 2016-2018 – he was a faculty member of the English as a Second Language Certificate program at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, New York.
Since joining Syracuse University in 2018, David has designed, developed, and taught in-person, online, and hybrid English language courses for the English Language Institute and International Programs at the College of Professional Studies (CPS). He has created and taught English for Specific Purposes programs for graduate students entering the School of Architecture and the School of Information Studies and currently manages instruction of hybrid English for Academic Purposes courses for the International Year One (iY-1) program. In the Bachelor of Professional Studies program, David has taught First Year Seminar (FYS 101) and Orange Immersion (BPS 144). He is also a member of the CPS DEIA committee, where he is involved in the design and development of FYS 101 at CPS. He has also taught sections of the in-person main campus version of FYS 101 in the fall semester since 2021.
David holds an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of San Francisco, an M.Ed. in Practice-based Educational Research in TESOL from the University of Exeter (UK), and an M.S. in Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation from Syracuse University.