graduated from the United States Military Academy with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and from Norwich University with an MS in Organizational Leadership. He currently serves as the VP of Operations for Vergason Technology, Inc. He has been with VTI since 2015 and oversees all PVD equipment builds and coating services. He is responsible for developing coating recipes (PVD and PECVD) for new applications at VTI including thin films on plastic and painted substrates, and tribological coatings on metal substrates, using sputtering, PECVD, thermal evaporation, cathodic arc and HiPIMS deposition technologies.