Education

Degree             Date                        School
PhD August 1992 Kent State University

MS December 1986 Kent State University
BA May 1980 Thiel College

Doctoral Dissertation:
“Generalizing Bitonic and Odd-Even Merging Networks”
Advisor: Kenneth E. Batcher

Master’s Thesis:

“Factoring Large Numbers on the Massively Parallel Processor”

Advisor: Jerry L. Potter

Professional Experience

Professor, Department of Computer Science, The University of Akron

1993 – present

Coordinator, Computer Design Center, Kent State University

Network administrator for the School of Technology.

September 1989 - May 1993

Software Engineer, Digital Systems Engineering, Goodyear Aerospace/Loral Defense Systems

Defense contracts for N.A.S.A Goddard, National Security Agency, U. S. Airforce and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).

January 1985 - September 1989

Systems Programmer, Thiel College

System administrator for academic and business operations.

January 1983 - January 1985

Engineering Programmer, Project Engineering, R. D. Werner Co., Inc.

Engineering, simulation and computer aided design applications.

March 1979 - January 1983

Courses Taught

*Software Security (Introduction to) Computer Security

Mobile Computing *Advanced Operating Systems

Operating Systems *Advanced Parallel Processing

Computer Graphics (Introduction to) Parallel Processing

Data Communications and Computer Networks Internet (Applied) Systems Programming

*Computer Networks and Distributed Processing Assembly Language Programming

Data Structures & Algorithms I Introduction to Computer Science

Data Structures & Algorithms II Descriptive Computer Science

* denotes graduate level class