Curriculum Vitae

Education

University of California at Irvine
 

• Fall ‘74 - Spring ‘78        BA, Math
• Fall ‘79 - Fall ‘81            MS, Math
• Winter ‘82 - Fall ‘85       Graduate studies in Math and Cognitive Science


California State University at Bakersfield
 

• Winter ‘89, Spring ‘89     Computer Architecture course sequence


Claremont Graduate School
 

• Fall ‘91 - Fall ‘92             Graduate studies in Mathematics (Dynamical Systems)

Stanford University (Free online course)

• Fall  2011                        Machine Learning  (CS 229a)

Honors & Fellowships

Physical Science Fellowship (to study Algebraic Curves), 1977  

Upon Graduation from UC Irvine, 6/78:

• Outstanding Senior in Mathematics
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Magna Cum Laude

Summer 2009:   Levan Scholar Grant for Mathematics as Art

Work Experience

        1/89 - Present       Professor of Mathematics  Bakersfield College;
                                     served as Department Chair during '95-'96 academic year;
                                     In addition to teaching - software development using
                                     Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual C#, and most recently, Python

1/87 - 3/88          Senior Software Engineer  DEST Corp., Milpitas, CA;
                            image processing applications in C and assembly language

8/82 - 6/86          Senior Programmer  UC Irvine Medical School, Irvine, CA;
                            support for the Brain Imaging Center, image
                            processing and analysis of PET and multi-lead EEG surface
                            activity maps, mostly in Pascal, some Macro-11 assembly and
                            FORTRAN

1/79 - 9/79          Programmer  Hughes Aircraft Co., Fullerton, CA;
                            software for Hughes Air Defense Radar System, M6800
                            assembly language
 

Research & Publications

Calculus I & II with Maple Labs, current project

Beginning Algebra, copyright 2004, published by Content on Demand,
ISBNS 0-9742139-0-X (Blackboard CMS) & 0-9742139-1-8 (WebCT CMS)

Intermediate Algebra, copyright 2004, published by Content on Demand,
ISBNS 0-9742139-3-4 (Blackboard CMS) & 0-9742139-4-2 (WebCT CMS)

Getting Started with Maple V, copyright 1999, published by Waterloo Maple, Inc. 
ISBN 0-9680167-7-4

Cellular Automata Dynamics, copyright 1997, (unpublished)

Dynamics of the Newton Transform of  zⁿ - 1, copyright 1993, (unpublished)

(abstract) Generation and Analysis of Brain Surface Activity Maps,
IEEE 1984 Frontiers of Engineering in Health Care Conference Proceedings