A career where software meets hardware, reliability, users, and real-world consequences.

My career began at NASA Kennedy Space Center, developing model-based expert systems, robotics, and real-time embedded systems for Space Shuttle ground operations. That early work established a lasting interest in intelligent systems that have to operate safely in the physical world.

I later worked deep in the embedded platform stack at Wind River and Sun Microsystems—across kernels, board support packages, compilers, debuggers, networking, performance, and hardware bring-up. That low-level experience became the foundation for the whole-system troubleshooting I bring to larger programs.

Much of my career has been in medical technology: implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, wearable cardiac monitoring, a wearable external defibrillator, therapeutic laser systems, continuous glucose monitoring, ultrasonic imaging, and a high-speed antibiotic susceptibility instrument. These programs demanded rigor across architecture, implementation, verification, design control, manufacturing, quality, and reliability.

More recently, my work at Georgia Tech and GTRI has included spacecraft flight hardware, FPGA/Zynq avionics, hardware-in-the-loop and flat-sat systems, ADCS integration, secure embedded platforms, reproducible development workflows, lab leadership, and graduate teaching.

I hold a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, am a Senior Member of IEEE, and am named on 7+ U.S. patents across wearable monitoring, external defibrillation, and therapeutic systems.

What connects the work

The domains have changed. The underlying job has not: learn the real system, make risk visible, connect disciplines, stay close enough to implementation to know what is true, and help the team turn ambiguity into evidence.