About
I grew up in Newark, DE - skateboarding, drawing, going to the beach, playing basketball, hiking in the woods, and generally leading a pretty free and easy life. I've since lived in:
- Philadelphia, where I attended Drexel University for undergrad
- The Willamette Valley in Oregon where I worked for the Albany Research Center for the DOE
- Dallas where I attended UT-Dallas and received my PhD
- The far, far, far East Bay where I worked as a postdoc and member of technical staff at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
- And now I'm back in the Philadelphia suburbs among the mushrooms, running Such Software and building accessible, high-performance web applications
Most of my career has been spent on radiation and the things that detect it. My PhD at UT-Dallas was in radiation-detector materials, and at Lawrence Livermore I worked on ionizing-radiation detectors, mid-IR detectors, and radioisotope (nuclear) batteries, with a fair amount of MCNP5 Monte Carlo modeling along the way. After that I spent some time at Holtec on spent-fuel and dry-cask loading (yes, I really did build Spent-Fuel Tetris), and then taught engineering at Cecil College for a few years. Eventually I left to go founder mode.
These days Such Software is where it all comes together: custom e-commerce, original apps, nuclear-themed edutainment games, and nuclear and radiation modeling consulting. If you'd rather learn than hire, I keep a set of open-source GEANT4 radiation labs, and my older physics work lives on Google Scholar.
I have a habit of starting things. I founded Patrn LLC and art101.io for NFT art, and Tabby Labs, home of the Meowlet crypto wallet. I launched Wownero back in 2018, and I serve on the board (VP/Treasurer) of MAGIC Grants, supporting privacy and open-source work.