graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His graduate research included the development of a hollow cathode reactive sputtering UHV system with magnetic field confinement. His research focused on the deposition of a-Si:H, a-Ge:H and a-SiGe:H thin films for use in solar cells. He has been an applications engineer at the J.A. Woollam Company since January 2002, where he specializes in real-time process monitoring and control via in situ spectroscopic ellipsometry.