Positions

7/04-present
Assistant Project Scientist, with Riley D. Newman, Experimental Gravitational Physics
University of California, Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy
cryogenic torsion balance, big G measurement, search for violation of inverse square law and equivalence principle

5/06-present
Lab Safety Representative, Riley D. Newman's lab
University of California, Irvine, Environmental Health & Safety

1/00-present
Information Technologies Consultant
Zinfinite Solutions, a small private business
computer and home automation troubleshooting and advising

5/05-8/05
Summer Sessions Lecturer
University of California, Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Introductory Calculus-based Mechanics, 100 students

10/01-6/04
Postgraduate Researcher, with Riley D. Newman, Experimental Gravitational Physics
University of California, Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy
cryogenic torsion balance, big G measurement, search for violation of inverse square law and equivalence principle

12/96-9/01
Communications Systems Engineer, Pacific-Sierra Research, Poway, CA
(aquired by Veridian Systems, in turn later aquired by General Dynamics, and currently split off as Hi-Q Engineering)
ELF/VLF/LF radio transmitter design, installation, diagnosis, repair and upgrades
Projects: intermodulation distortion modeling, SF6 insulation study, transmitter monitoring system design and installation, WWWVB control system design and programming

8/95-11/96
Postgraduate Researcher, with John M. Goodkind, Low Temperature Helium Physics
University of California, San Diego, Department of Physics
search for chaotic rates in microwave-assisted tunneling of electrons from liquid helium surface at ~0.1 Kelvin

1/95-6/95
Consultant, Strategic Economic Decisions, Menlo Park, CA
Calculational validation of a quaternionic spinor formulation of general relativity

Advisor: M. Sachs, State University of New York, Buffalo, Department of Physics

12/94-6/95
Staff Research Associate, with Charles D. Buchanan, High Energy Physics
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Physics
prepared a preprint surveying all hadronization production measurements and fits to models

1/88-11/94
Graduate Student Researcher, with Charles D. Buchanan, High Energy Physics
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Physics
B-factory modeling, f-factory theory design and modeling, and thesis research

5/90-3/92
Visiting Scholar, with SLAC, High Energy Physics
Stanford University
TPC/Two-Gamma Collaboration, PEP collider experiment

6/89-5/90
Graduate Student Researcher, with David B. Cline, High Energy Physics
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Physics
E771 detector construction at Fermilab

1/88-6/88
Teaching Assistant, High Energy Physics laboratory, upper division
Teaching Assistant, Electromagnetism laboratory, lower division
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Physics

9/87-6/88
Research Assistant, with Roy P. Haddock, High Energy Physics
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Physics
High Energy instructional laboratory development: e.g. spark and drift chambers, scintillators.

4/86-6/87
Teaching Assistant, Electromagnetism, lower division
Teaching Assistant, Astrophysics, lower division
University of California, San Diego, Department of Physics


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