I attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where I finished my Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2000. My research interests are in parallel computing. I worked with the Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC) under Dr. Joseph Flaherty as a Research Assistant (grad student) and later as a Research Scientist. I have done part-time software development work at Power Technologies, Inc, in Schenectady, New York, and was a part-time lab manager for the PASTA Lab (Parallel Asynchronous and Synchronous Theory and Applications Lab) and taught a few courses as an adjunct instructor in Computer Science at Union.
In 2000, I joined the faculty in Computer Science at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. I spent seven years there, except for some time while on leave at the Computer Science Research Institute at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I got married in 2006. For 2007-08, I am on the faculty in Computer Science at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
I'm also the owner of the Amsterdam Ice-9 of the Original Bitnet Fantasy Baseball League, and run Union College Skating Dutchmen Hockey mailing list at unionhockey@tardis.union.edu. At Union, I helped start Virtual U, and helped for a few years with managing the systems. I run an NFL football picks game by e-mail for a group of friends and friends of friends. Send me a note if you want to play next season.
Away from work, I enjoy playing softball, racquetball, squash, volleyball, and alpine skiing, though I haven't head nearly as much time or opportunity for most of these as I'd like. My RPI Computer Science department softball team took the Fall 1998 C/D Intramural Championship after many seasons of coming up just short. I like to travel for fun and for work, much of which is documented on my travel and photo page and often includes baseball games. When it's not baseball season, it's college hockey season, and you can still often find me at Union's Achilles Rink in Section 3, Row 7, Seat 5. In March, I try to see as much as I can of the REAL March Madness -- the ECAC and NCAA Men's Hockey tournaments.