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I am Chair and Professor in the Computer Science Department at Siena University.
I attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, finishing my B.S. in Math and Computer Science in 1992, and my M.S. in Computer Science in 1993. I worked as the Graduate Assistant for the Department of Computer Science during the 1992-93 academic year.
I attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where I finished my Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2000, focused on parallel computing. I worked with the Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC) under the late Dr. Joseph Flaherty as a Research Assistant (grad student) and later as a Research Scientist. I did some part-time software development work at Power Technologies, Inc, in Schenectady, New York, and was a part-time lab manager for the PASTA (Parallel Asynchronous and Synchronous Theory and Applications) Lab and taught a few courses as an adjunct instructor in Computer Science at Union.
In 2000, I joined the faculty in Computer Science at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. I spent seven years there, except for some time while on leave at the Computer Science Research Institute at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 2007-08 and again in 2009-10, I was on the faculty in Computer Science at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. In that year in between, I worked as a software developer at Clickshare Service Corporation and did some teaching at RPI and Siena. I spent the 2010-11 and 2011-12 academic years in a visiting faculty position at Siena. From Fall 2012 to Spring 2016, I was a member of the faculty in Computer Science at The College of Saint Rose, where I earned tenure in 2015.
In Fall 2016, I returned to Siena. I earned tenure a few years later, then a promotion to Professor, and into my current role as department chair. Major projects include the Map-Based Educational Tools for Algorithm Learning (METAL) and Mission-aligned Programs in Computer Science.
Since the early 2000s, I have served in many roles with the Consorium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, Northeast Region (CCSCNE).
Personal
My family lives in Amsterdam, New York, the same city where I grew up.
I like to travel for fun and for work, much of which is documented on my travel and photo page and tracked on my Travel Mapping page (where I was the primary developer and current maintainer), and often includes baseball games or skiing. On winter weekends, I am a ski instructor, previously at Bousquet, and since 2008 at Royal Mountain. When it's not baseball season, it's college hockey season, and you can still find me at M&T Bank Arena (after over 35 years at Union's Messa Rink at Achilles Center) for most of Union's home hockey games.
I previously served on the School Board for Saint Mary's Institute in Amsterdam, a Diocese of Albany Catholic School enrolling students in Early Childhood to Grade 8.