Employment and Education
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Information Technology in Civil
Engineering
1995
- Thesis under Prof. H.H. Einstein titled A Decision Support Framework for Planning Geotechnical Engineering Programs
- Interdisciplinary program involving faculty from the Geotechnical Engineering and the Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, along with the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives at MIT
- Knowledge for research required in: geostatistics, C++, XWindows/Motif, graphics, geology, geotechnical engineering, decision support, object-oriented programming (OOP)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M. Civil Engineering
1991
- Thesis under Prof. H.H. Einstein titled A User-Friendly Computer-Aided Soil Profiling System for Use with the Engineering Geology Tutor
- Developed courseware (Physical Geology Tutor and Nomad) for engineering geology education using C/C++ and XWindows/Motif
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.B. Civil Engineering
1989
- Concentration in geotechnical engineering with a minor in economics; other courses included structural engineering, computer aided engineering with GL, and geographic information systems
Employment
Central Michigan University
Professor and Chairperson (current)
2003-present
- Department of Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Consultant (part-time)
2000-2003
- Part time consulting to Prof. Herbert Einstein and his graduate students maintaining software
Schlumberger Technology Corp.
Sr. Software Engineer
1995-2003
- Experience: interpolation and extrapolation techniques, univariate and bivariate statistics, geostatistics, simulation techniques, geology, geophysics, relational databases (Oracle), Fortran 77, C/C++, XWindows/Motif, Java, Unix (Solaris and IRIX), XDesigner, sqlplus, Omniworks (source code control), large-scale object-oriented software development, lifecycle software processes, graphics and multimedia issues, numerical and simulation methods; knowledge of OpenGL and OpenInventor
