Research Experience / Employment History

Research Engineer
University of Texas at Austin, Fusion Research Center
Spring 1994 - Present

• Operation and maintenance of gyrotron systems (high power microwave sources.)

Lecturer
University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics
Spring 1993 Fall 1994

• Introductory mechanics for physics majors.
• Conceptual physics for non-technical students.

Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Texas at Austin, Center for Relativity 1991 - 1994

• Completed a thorough numerical study of the O(2,1) Nonlinear Sigma Model.
• Currently studying the translation of differential geometric ideas to lattice physics.

Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
National Center for Supercomputing Applications 1989 - 1991

• Numerical investigations of quantum field theories.

Graduate Research Assistant
University of Texas at Austin, Center for Relativity 1987 - 1989

• Numerical simulations of perturbatively nonrenormalizable quantum field theories.

Graduate Research Assistant
UT Austin, Fusion Research Center 1985 - 1987

• Design, construction, and installation of electrical hardware for the Texas Experimental Tokamak.
• Single-person projects successfully carried from design through operation included:
  • High-Power Current Switcher
  • High-Voltage Fault Detector
  • Power Supply Control Circuitry

Graduate Research Assistant
Georgia Tech Research Institute, Microscopy Branch 1984

• Dispersion staining identification of asbestos.

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Georgia Tech, Dept. of Electrical Engineering 1983 - 1984

• Laboratory Instruction Help Sessions Tutoring Grading in:
  • Analog and Digital Circuits
  • Linear System Theory

Special Technical Assistant
Western Electric, Greensboro, NC.
Government and Commercial Sales Division 1982 - 1983

• Aided design and construction of prototype low-noise current supplies for hydrophone arrays.
• Coordinated documentation efforts.

Summer Intern
Army Night Vision and Electro-Optics Laboratory, Ft. Belvoir, VA. 1981

• Assisted engineers in the evaluation of an infrared imaging system.