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. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 1238–1241, June 1990.
  • 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:

Python Java C++ C Rust Linux AWS Kubernetes Docker SQL Apache Spark PySpark QGIS

Credentials

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • CompTIA Security+
  • FAA Part 107 (small UAS)