In 2005 I completed my Ph.D. in the Department of Chemistry at Iowa State University, studying physical chemistry under John Kozak. I studied diffusion-reaction processes in finite systems and examined the factors which affect reaction efficiency, e.g., synchronicity, physical topology, reactant mobility, etc.

 In 2006 I completed an M.S. degree in the Department of Computer Science,  at Iowa State University, advised by Ricky Kendall. My research was focused on high-performance computing for scientific applications. I worked on hybrid programming for the coupled-cluster method in the quantum chemistry software package GAMESS, which is developed and maintained by Mark Gordon's group.

After my M.S. degree I worked as a postdoctoral research associate for Mark Gordon in the Scalable Computing Laboratory, which is part of Ames Laboratory.  

 In February 2007, I took a permanent position as a software engineer at Cray Inc. in the Twin Cities.  I'm a member of the Scientific Libraries group.  We are responsible for writing and maintaining the serial and parallel scientific libraries including dense and sparse linear algebra and Fast Fourier Transform software.