I am currently the Director of Software Engineering at VisTrails, Inc, a startup company spun out from the University of Utah. I also hold a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the university, where I recently completed a Ph.D. in Computing under the direction of Claudio Silva. I received an M.S. in Computational Engineering and Science from the University of Utah in 2004 and a B.S. in Computer Science from Utah State University in 2002.
I mainly participated in two research projects during my graduate studies. The first is the VisTrails, a scientific workflow management system for data exploration and visualization. The second is Hardware-Assisted Visibility Sorting (HAVS), a volume rendering system for unstructured grids.
My previous professional experience includes five years working at Parametric Technology Corporation as a software engineer on 3D design software and two summers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a technical scholar.