Education

Ph.D. Physics, University of Kansas, December 1996
M.S. Physics, University of Kansas, 1993
B.S. Physics, Weber State University, 1991
B.S. Applied Mathematics, Weber State University, 1990

Employment.  

Mathematician, (Civilian) Hill Air Force Base 1989-1991
Post Doctoral Fellow, JHU/APL 1997-2001
Staff, JHU/APL 2001-

I worked as a Mathematician for the Air Force for three years while I was finishing my undergraduate education.  
Towards the end of that I decided to opt out of civil service and went to graduate school.

I there met Professor Tom Armstrong (my thesis advisor) with whom I worked the entire time at KU.  I worked exclusively 
with ULYSSES/HISCALE Data and wrote my dissertation about upstream events observed at Jupiter during the Ulysses encounter.

I was offered a post-doc by Rob Gold to design ACE software prior to launch and then to conduct research with 
ACE data during the mission.

Early papers were related to upstream events observed at the L1 orbit by ACE.  I then moved into work on interplanetary 
transient activity, magnetic clouds, etc.  For the last few years I have been working with energetic electron and ion data 
observed in SEP events and have been interested in the acceleration mechanisms and associated electromagnetic emissions.