Objectives

To advance a career in Internet and music-related software and hardware development. Areas of interest include:

Programming: Write Java applications and applets, including JavaSound, for innovative Web sites, Internet client/server applications and end users.

Multimedia: Develop and implement new audio effects algorithms and other software DSP applications.

Music: Compose and produce music for CD-ROMs, the Web and other media.

Protocols Participate in the development of client-server protocols for musical interaction on the Internet. May include development of a hardware interface.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Ph.D. in Plasma Physics, September, 1987

University of Wisconsin, Madison: B.S. (Honors) in Physics, B.S. in Mathematics, May, 1982

Computer, Audio and Music Skills

Architecture: Sun SPARC, PC, Alpha, VAX.

Operating Systems: Unix, Windows, DOS, VMS.

Programming and Script Languages:Java, C, FORTRAN, Perl, ASP, PHP, JavaScript.

DBMS: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, SAS, MDS.

Hardware: MIDI, sound cards, synths, audio electronics, CAMAC and PC card data acquisition, signal processing electronics.

Music: Guitar performance, composing, arranging and home studio recording and production.

Employment History

Senior Developer and CTO, Interactive Media Solutions, LLC, Madison, WI, November 1999 -- present.

Develop Internet and intranet database and multimedia applications using Java, ASP, PHP and Perl languages. Clients and developed sites can be viewed on the IMS home page. As personal activities, develop non-commercial Java applications, maintain Original Jazz Charts on the Web, a repository of original jazz compositions contributed by the composers, as well as The Physics of Everyday Stuff, a web book describing the physics behind things we see in everyday life.

Develop and administer a LAN consisting of Unix, Windows and Macintosh computers, including NT servers running Microsoft IIS and MSSQL, Linux servers running Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL, as well as domain name service, Lyris list servers, a mail server and other services.

Sysadmin and Programmer, The World of Internet AB, Stockholm, August 1998 -- November 1999.

Responsibilities similar to above.

Guest Researcher, Alfvén Laboratory, KTH, Stockholm, October 1995 -- July 1998.

Conducted experimental plasma physics research on the Extrap-T2 reversed-field pinch, funded by the Swedish government and Euratom. Also collaborated on experiments on the RTP tokamak at FOM-Rijnhuizen in The Netherlands.

In addition to research and teaching activities continued from Wisconsin summarized below, new activities included: completion and publication of results from a 1-D RFP transport code (in FORTRAN) which simulates particle, energy and neutral transport due to magnetic turbulence; administration of a PostgreSQL database on a Sun Solaris network including Java JDBC applications and applets which read and write to tables over the Internet, and an IDL interface for accessing data.

Assistant Professor, Physics, UW-Madison, September 1988 -- August 1995.

Conducted experimental plasma physics research on the MST reversed-field pinch, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Developed and installed a wide variety of plasma diagnostics, including x-ray spectroscopy and tomography, charge-exchange ion spectroscopy, electrostatic energy analysis and bolometry.

Developed a large body of modeling and data analysis software, and supervised a VAX/VMS cluster with CAMAC data acquisition using MDS software and IDL and SAS data analysis packages.

Guided Ph.D. research of three students to completion, M.S. thesis research of one student, senior thesis research of two undergraduates and advised three additional Ph.D. students.

Collaborated with colleagues in the U.S., Italy, Japan, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Presented results at numerous professional conferences and workshops in addition to refereed publication.

Taught undergraduate general physics and graduate plasma physics courses.

Instituted a system for training and review of teaching assistants, as chair of the departmental TA Review Committee. Advised undergraduate majors. Established a new course, Physics 726, Plasma Magnetohydrodynamics, cross-listed with the ECE and NEEP departments.

Visiting Scientist, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow, October, 1987 -- July, 1988.

Conducted experimental research on the Soviet Union's leading tokamak, T-10, with emphasis on superthermal electron confinement in the presence of microwave heating and magnetic instabilities, as part of the US-USSR scientific exchange program in fusion research. Developed a PC-based CAMAC data acquisition and analysis system which acquired half of the data from the experiment, supporting the activity of many other researchers. Became fluent in Russian.

Research Assistant, Plasma Fusion Center, MIT, September, 1982 -- September, 1987.

Conducted Ph.D. experimental research on the Constance B mirror experiment, measuring and modeling velocity-space diffusion of relativistic electrons in the presence of applied and instability-generated cyclotron-resonant microwaves. Developed a variety of plasma diagnostics. Helped develop the VAX/VMS-based MDS data acquisition system.

Visiting Assistant Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Summer, 1983.

Wrote a vectorized computer code which solves the Fokker-Planck equation with arbitrary boundary conditions using a Monte Carlo technique, for application to tandem mirror heating and confinement problems.

Summer Student Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Summer, 1982.

Simulated neutral beam heating of the ATF stellarator during its design phase.