Kevin Copps Ph.D., is a programmer/analyst in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His dissertation was The Design and the Implementation of the Generalized Finite Element Method (2000). He currently works in the department of Validation and Uncertainty Quantification Processes at Sandia National Laboratories. He specializes in programming C++ and Python. He does some web development with Javascript. He is also interested in graphic design and lean software development.