About Me

I’m currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Mary Washington.

I spent 12-13 years in industry before coming to academia - my most recent role was as a Program Manager for the Department of Defense, overseeing a variety of (mostly) software projects. Before that, I spent time working as a:

• Test & Evaluation Engineer
• Scientist focusing on concept studies
• Researcher concerned with scalable and fault tolerant methods
• Systems engineer trying to coordinate a large number of subsystems and various moving parts
• Software engineer helping to build space systems for the future

I feel passionate about trying to optimize the use of computational resources and the abilities of the people using them. My research is related to a desire to help improve the algorithms commonly used in High Performance Computing which started after getting involved with parallel computation of large scale simulations while working in industry.

Education

• PhD - Engineering, with a concentration in Modeling & Simulation – Old Dominion University
• MS - Mathematics – Syracuse University
• BS - Mathematics – Oregon State University

Experience

• Assistant Professor – University of Mary Washington
• Program Manager – Strategic Systems Programs
• Senior Software Engineer – Northrop Grumman Corporation
• Scientist – Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division