Greetings. You've somehow stumbled onto my little niche in the vast organized chaos that is the World Wide Web. Since you're here, I'll be the good host and introduce myself. (In case you haven't noticed, this is a minimalist page - I haven't done much to it since I first created it in 1995...back when we edited html by hand, typing uphill both ways. Think of it as visiting a historical site...I'll get around to actually doing something decent someday. Right.)

I work for Verizon Communications in Virginia. I've spent the past few years on the Fiber to the Premises service (aka FiOS) architecture and design, dabbling with things like quality of service, network admission control and policy management, IPTV, video on demand and home networking. I'm also an adjunct Assistant Professor at Penn in Philadelphia, PA, teaching a graduate telecommunications seminar (TCOM 670). Prior to Verizon, I spent many years at Penn working on my Ph.D. under the guidance of Profs. Jonathan Smith and David Farber. And before that I used to design video processors for Intel. For my dissertation I architected VENUS, a scalable network architecture for a virtual environment (this was before Second Life...). Put simply, I showed how to create a big 3-D virtual world. Apparently the real world isn't good enough. If you're interested, take a look at some of the stuff I wrote.

So much for the serious stuff. On to more fun things...my non-academic interests include skiing, running, poker, humor (especially really bad good puns), Scrabble, foosball, paintball, caffeine, and procrastination. Over the years I've found some interesting quotes worth remembering. And some worth forgetting.

Friendly email is always welcome. Friendly fire is not.