Experience

Nucleic Sensing Systems

• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Sep 2022 - Present



Apogee Research, LLC

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Experimentalist

  • Sep 2021 - Sep 2022

  Arlington, Virginia, United States



Flathead Lake Biological Station

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Professor

  • 2016 - Sep 2021

  Flathead Lake, MT



Excelsior Photonics Corporation

• United States

• Co-Founder, CEO

  • Jan 2014 - Sep 2021

  33 West 60th Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 1002 Excelsior is an optical materials company. Our luminescent chemicals are used as key components in manufacturing, research and consumer products.



Arizona State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Professor

  • 2008 - Jul 2016

  School of Earth & Space Exploration



University of Washington

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ph.D. Condensed Matter Physics

  • 2001 - 2008

  University of Washington Experimental Physics Specializing in Ultrafast Laser Manufacturing Dissertation Title: Optical Applications of Two-Photon and Microexplosion Lithography



Los Alamos National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research in Helioseismology and Neutrino Production

  • 2000 - 2001

  The way the sun quivers and shakes is highly dependent on density distributions that also effect produced neutrino flavor. Fortran, Python, Unix. “Standard and Non-Standard solar Models” Guzik, J. A., Neuforge-Verheecke, C., Young, A. C., Epstein, R. I., Poulin, F. M., & Schissel, J. R., 2001, Solar Physics, 200, 305-321.

• Graduate Research in Remote Sensing Feature Identification

  • 1999 - 2001

  NIS-2 RFIP Project Genetic algorithms for automated feature extraction Python, Java, C/C++, IDL, multispectral satellite image analysis.



Santa Fe Institute

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graduate Internship in Computer Science

  • 1997 - 1997

  Cellular automata simulation of spin-glasses C/C++, Unix.



Los Alamos National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• REU Research in Astrophysics

  • 1996 - 1996

  Neutron Starquakes. Computational examination of the statistical similarities between earthquakes and soft gamma ray bursts.



The University of New Mexico

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research in Astronomy

  • 1996 - 1996

  Dark matter microlensing search in Quasar light. Unix, Fortran.



Arizona State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• REU Research in Semi-Conductor Raman Spectroscopy

  • 1995 - 1995

  Raman Spectroscopy on GaAs-AlAs Superlattices