Professor Adjunct - Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Research: Real-Time Systems Research Page
Publications: Conference/Journal Papers and Major Presentations
Teaching
Current Advising:
Other: Rocket Scientist Presentation to Coal Creek Elementary School
Previously at CU, I taught Linux-based lab sections of undergraduate Operating Systems for the C.S. department and have been a graduate research assistant with Colorado Space Grant College where I was the student team lead of the End-to-End Mission Operations Systems Software for a Space Shuttle Hitchhiker Payload that flew on STS-85 in August 1997 and was funded by JPL and GSFC.
The End-to-End system included: a ground distributed computing environment, link communications protocols, and embedded system operations automation and device management. I completed my Ph.D. in August 2000 in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder where I received my M.S. in Computer Science in 1993.
My Ph.D. thesis is "A Real-Time Execution Performance Agent Interface to Confidence-Based Scheduling", a kernel mechanism for real-time digital control and continuous media. This work was part of Prof. Gary Nutt's project dealing with operating systems support for vitrual environments.
I received my B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1989, worked three years for McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Corp. - now Boeing Space Systems in Guidance, Navigation & Control developing simulation, space environment models, and guidance systems software for the Space Station and the Aeroassist Flight Experiment. During that time, I also worked for McDonnell Douglas at Johnson Space Center in the Shuttle Mission Control Center, developing Shuttle ascent and entry monitoring and cockpit avionics visualization software.
From 1997-2000 I worked at Ball Aerospace in Boulder on the SIRTF (Space Infrared Telescope facility). More specifically, I designed and developed software for the payload computer to control the Multi-band Imaging and Photometer Spectrograph being built by University of Arizona and Ball Aerospace. This instrument includes real-time control of a fast-steering mirror and three detectors for telescope observing modes including a sky-scan mosaic capability. SIRTF is scheduled to launch in 2003 from KSC and will be put into an Earth following orbit about the Sun.
The SIRTF/MIPS software includes a nice test image which corresponds to the amount of CPU it uses to compress video from 3 detectors on a radiation hardened 20 MhZ 603e PowerPC processor.
Beetween July 2000 and May 2002, I worked in the telecommunications industry, first for Lucent in the Denver Optical Networking Group, and between January 2001 and May 2002 for Network Photonics in Boulder.
I presently work for Atrato in Westminster Colo.