I'm a Ph.D. candidate finishing up my degree in Astrophysics at Michigan State University. My research focus right now is in clusters of galaxies, their formation, and the role they can play as a cosmological probe.

I'm also a programmer with a love of languages and language design. I cut my teeth on Visual Basic in the mid-90's, found gainful employment shortly thereafter as a database programmer, did my time as a dot-com era digital design shop Java punk in a SOMA loft, graduated to independent contracting, then rode out the dot-com bust as a cog in a big West Coast bank's corporate machine.

And now, I program in Fortran. What a world.