Welcome to my homepage.  Currently I'm a post-doctoral researcher in the Data to Insight Center at Indiana University in beautiful Bloomington Indiana! I completed my dissertation in Computer Science here at Indiana University in 2010 and have been working as post-doc since defending my dissertation (An Adaptable Repository for Complex Scientific Metadata).

I know, one look at my picture and you're thinking, "How long did it take him to get his Ph.D.?" Actually I started working on my Ph.D. in 2003.  After first getting a bachelor's degree (1984) and masters degree (1986) in the totally unrelated field of accounting,  I decided to go back for my masters degree in computer science.  Originally I was going to do this in 1986, but was afraid I would pile up too many student loans and then could never afford to leave school.

In 1991 I started working on my masters degree in computer science part-time at DePaul University in Chicago. While working at Price Waterhouse in various roles including software development, client management, and product management, I finished my masters degree in 1996.

Although I should have continued on for a Ph.D. at that point, I had taken six months off to finish my degree after my employer sold the division I was working for, so I was feeling poor again (student living has that effect). After working once more for a number of years in software development at Ernst &: Young in New York and then Chicago, I started my Ph.D. in 2003 here at IU and finished in 2010.

My wife Linda is a professor in the Management and Entrepreneurship department at the Kelly Business School here at Indiana University, so fortunately I was able to get a post-doctoral position here in the Data to Insight Center directed by Beth Plale, which has afforded me the opportunity to work with a number of great people on projects in metadata, provenance, archiving, and data management.

In November of 2011, along with Beth Plale and colleages from DataONE, I presented a 1/2-day tutorial at SC 11 on metadata management titled "Big Data Means Your Metadata Must Work".

In January 2012 I was co-PI (PI Beth Plale) for the NSF meeting Coming Together Around Data that was held in Indianapolis. The meeting brought together PIs of the NSF DataNet and INTEROP projects.

To see what my research is all about, what projects I have been working on, as well as a list of publications and presentations, please click on the Research menu item.

If you have looked at all of the other stuff and are still trying to pass the time, there are some non-academic random thoughts and old christmas letters in the Random link.