Education:

• Currently Ph.D candidate in Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Cruz
• B.A. in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz in May, 1993
• B.A. in Biology and Anthropology from the University of Delaware in May, 1988

Professional Employment:

• Lecturer University of California at Santa Cruz March 2000 -- April 2002
  • Lecturer for Computer Engineering 003: Personal Computers: Hardware and Software
  • Responsible for preparing lectures, quizzes and exams, developing homework problems, and grading students in the class.

• Research and Teaching Assistant University of California at Santa Cruz Sept. 1996 -- March 2000
  • Currently exploring the use of haptics for scientific visualization for use in advancement to candidacy.
  • Have researched methods of visualizing gene expression data.
  • Have researched methods of visualizing protein structure-sequence alignments.
  • Teaching assistant for Discrete Math for four years.
    • Taught sectionals, hired and managed the readers/graders, and maintained all records for over 100 students.

• Contractor, SurfSoft May 1996 -- June 1996
  • Independent one month contract to write motif widget test code.

• Software Engineer, MetaWare April 1995 -- May 1996 and May 1993--Jan.1995
  • Programmer responsible for Graphical User interface for debugger (written using motif).
  • Project Manager for Quality Assurance and Testing Department.
  • Quality Assurance and Software Testing

• Software Engineer, Santa Cruz Operations Jan. 1995 -- April 1995
  • Hired to do GUI work on the custom installation windows.

Computer Skills:

• Programming experience in C++, C, and a little JAVA.
• Graphics programming using OpenGL.
• GUI interface experience involving Motif.
• GUI interface experience involving XForms.
• Bourne shell programming.

Research Interests:

• Scientific Visualization, Scientific Sonification, and Scientific Haptic Information.

Published Papers:

• ProtAlign: A 3-Dimensional Protein Alignment Assessment Tool Published in PSB 1999- Pacific Symposium for Bioinformatics
• PROMUSE: A Prototype System for Multi-Media Visualization of Protein Structural Alignments Published in PSB 1999- Pacific Symposium for Bioinformatics
• Comparative Visualization of Protein Structure-Sequence Alignments Published in IEEE Information Visualization 1998

Relevant Graduate Level Classes:

• Computer Science
  Programming Languages and Environments, Computer Graphics, Bioinformatics, Analysis of Algorithms, and various independent study projects on Scientific Visualization.
• Computer Engineering
  Software Engineering, Data Compression and Image Coding, Special Topics in Image Processing, Seminar in Image and Video Coding, and Computer Architecture.
• Biochemistry
  Protein Structure and Folding and Advanced Biochemistry.

Relevant Undergraduate Level Classes: