In 1999 I began coordinating the Elizabethtown College Computer Engineering Program and founded the Robotics and Machine Intelligence Lab. In 2004 I was the first Elizabethtown Engineering professor to earn tenure and promotion.

In the 1980's and 90's I worked for Purdue University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, for IBM as a Engineer and Researcher on IBM S/390 mainframe supercomputer multiprocessor hardware and systems level software, for AI Dupont Children's Hospital as a rehabilitation robotics researcher, and for San Francisco State University as an Astronomy Lecturer. Also in the 1980's I had a career participating in the design and construction of many architectural projects including high-tech office parks in Texas and California -- and worked part-time as an environmental planner for San Diego County.

My engineering degrees are: Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1996, M.Eng in Engineering Science-Computer Design from Penn State-Great Valley in 1992, BS in Architectural Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984. Additionally, I completed a year as a Physics grad at SFSU in 1988/89 and 39 credits towards a 2nd BS in Urban Studies(Design) and Planning at UC San Diego in 1986/87.