I grew up outside of Granville Ohio (near Columbus) and attended college at the University of California, Berkeley, where I graduated with honors in Applied Mathematics in 1991 (thesis advisor Hans Bremermann). After college, I took a break from an academic carreer, part spent making documentary films - "The Ride to Wounded Knee" (1992, post-production manager, assistant editor, sound editor), "29 and 7 Strong" (1995, all but voice-over) - and part spent as a VISTA volunteer building homes with low-income residents of Eastern Washington State (grant writer, Spanish translator, real-estate purchaser, and documentarist). I returned to Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle, where I recieved a MSc in December of 1997, and PhD in June of 2001 under the guidance of James Burke. I was a NASA/GSFC Graduate Student Research Fellow from 1998 to 2001.  This experience grew into the central application of my PhD thesis on the theory and practice of numerical algorithms for adaptive optics to be used with the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's replacement. After graduation I moved to the University of Göttingen in Germany to join Rainer Kress' group at the Institute for Numerical and Applied Mathematics. There I worked on inverse scattering theory and research cooperation with industry partners (July 2001 to April 2003). I was with the Mathematics Department at Simon Fraser University near Vancouver Canada as a PIMS Fellow teaching and doing research on applications of variational and nonsmooth analysis from December 2002 until August of 2004 with Jonathan Borwein and Adrian Lewis. I am presently Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Delaware. I am a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews, as well as international journals in optics and mathematics.
 
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