Welcome to my page.

I am currently working as a Lead Research Software Development Engineer (RSDE) in the Cloud Computing Futures (CCF) team within the Extreme Computing Group (XCG) at Microsoft Research. I joined Microsoft in 2003 and Microsoft Research in 2007.

Currently our team is working on cloud engagments with research both inside and outside of Microsoft. Prior to joining XCG I worked in External Research where I helped develop programs such as the Trident Workflow Workbench, the Microsoft Biology Foundation, and several other scientific computing and education projects. I even got to dabble a bit in robotics.

Before joining research, I was on the User Experience team for Microsoft Office 2007, which was a great experience. It was my team that designed and implemented the Ribbon User Interface you now see at the top of many Office Applications.

Prior to my work at Microsoft I also spent three years at IBM's Almaden Research Center. I earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

My current research interests focus largely around electronic science, helping scientific researchers outside of the domain of computer science have the tools they need to do their computationally demanding research. Taking advantage of cloud systems to distribute large data loads and computational demands has great potential to reshape scientific computing.

I am also interested in robotics and education and worked for some time to help the Institute for Personal Robotics in Education (IPRE).

I am also always interested in improving the interfaces people are exposed to when using technology. As such I often dable in the latest UI technologies and even look to gaming (XNA, Kodu, Natal) and new hardware (Surface, NUI) for ideas.