Professional Employment:
   Assistant professor, Grove City College, Department of Computer Science, January 2007-present
   Postdoctoral research fellow, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, November 2006-December 2006
   Research assistant, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, August 2002-October 2006
   Visiting research assistant, University of Bristol Computer Graphics Group, August 2005-October 2005
   Research assistant, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, May 2001-July 2002

Research Interests:

Computer graphics & visualization:		Light transport simulation for predictive rendering & visual simulation applications, global illumination algorithms, interactive rendering
High-performance computing:		Scalable parallel rendering algorithms, cluster-based systems, shared & distributed memory systems, high-speed network transport protocols
Other:		Computer graphics & visualization in the humanities

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Graduate Education:
     School of Computing, University of Utah
     Salt Lake City, Utah

     Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, December 2006

     Doctoral Dissertation:
     Interactive Methods for Effective Particle Visualization

Committee members:		Steven Parker, PhD
		Charles Hansen, PhD
		Christopher Johnson, PhD
		Peter Shirley, PhD
		Victoria Interrante, PhD (University of Minnesota)

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     Information Networking Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
     Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

     Master of Science in Information Networking,  December 2001

     Masters Thesis:
     Parallel Rendering for the Terascale Computing System

Advisors:		Jessica Hodgins, PhD
		Joel Welling, PhD

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Undergraduate Education:
     Hopeman School of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, Grove City College
     Grove City, Pennsylvania

     Bachelor of Science in Mathematics/Computer Systems Programming, May 2000
     Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, May 2000
     Magna Cum Laude