Brief Bio

 

Michael Arida

 

       

Employer: ADNET
       

Job Description: System Administrator/Sr. Programmer Analyst

Phone: (301) 286-2291

e-mail: arida@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov

 

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Mike received a B.S. in Physics in 1991 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [RPI] in Troy, New York. While still an undergraduate, he worked for GTE Sylvania in Towanda, Pennsylvania, conducting research into electroluminescent devices. He later worked for Grumman Aerospace in Princeton, New Jersey, assisting in the design of medium energy particle accelerators.

 

 

 

 

Pursuing a desire to see the world, Mike joined the U.S. Peace Corps for a two year stint teaching high school Chemistry and Physics in the small central African country of Malawi, home to the ninth largest freshwater lake in the world. He followed this with a 10 month English lecturer position at Academia Istropolitana in Brastislava, Slovak Republic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perhaps finally settling down, Mike began working at Goddard in August, 1995 working for the HEASARC, as a member of the

ROSAT Guest Observer

Facility. (GOF) and later the ASCA GOF, as well as coordinating exhibits for national and international astronomical meetings.

 

 

 

 

 

In 2005 Mike moved over to the dark side as a System Administrator for the

 

 

 

Teaching Experience

1994-1995 English Lecturer, Academia Istropolitana, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
1992-1994 U.S. Peace Corps, Science Teacher, Mchinji Sec.Sch. Malawi

Education

Bachelor of Science - 1991
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Professional Societies

Brief Bio

 

Michael Arida

 

       

Employer: ADNET
       

Job Description: System Administrator/Sr. Programmer Analyst

Phone: (301) 286-2291

e-mail: arida@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov

 

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Mike received a B.S. in Physics in 1991 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [RPI] in Troy, New York. While still an undergraduate, he worked for GTE Sylvania in Towanda, Pennsylvania, conducting research into electroluminescent devices. He later worked for Grumman Aerospace in Princeton, New Jersey, assisting in the design of medium energy particle accelerators.

 

 

 

 

Pursuing a desire to see the world, Mike joined the U.S. Peace Corps for a two year stint teaching high school Chemistry and Physics in the small central African country of Malawi, home to the ninth largest freshwater lake in the world. He followed this with a 10 month English lecturer position at Academia Istropolitana in Brastislava, Slovak Republic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perhaps finally settling down, Mike began working at Goddard in August, 1995 working for the HEASARC, as a member of the

ROSAT Guest Observer

Facility. (GOF) and later the ASCA GOF, as well as coordinating exhibits for national and international astronomical meetings.

 

 

 

 

 

In 2005 Mike moved over to the dark side as a System Administrator for the