Background
Physics training, research roots, and a long habit of shipping software across stacks and eras.
Education & research
- California Institute of Technology — B.S. Physics, 1989. Physics instructor, Summer Student Science Program, 1988. Research with the Theoretical Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- University of California, Santa Cruz — Graduate research assistant in physics at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (1990); silicon strip detectors in high-radiation environments, with testing at Los Alamos.
Selected publications
- Activity recognition using Video Event Segmentation with Text (VEST), 2014.
- Measurement of proton induced radiation damage to CMOS transistors and pin diodes.
- Test of radiation-hardness of CMOS test structures in neutron and proton beams (with H.F.W. Sadrozinski et al.), SCIPP-89-49, Oct 1989.
Technical toolkit
Languages and platforms used deeply in production and product work—not a shopping list, just what tends to show up:
Credentials
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- CompTIA Security+
- FAA Part 107 (small UAS)