was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1966. He received his BSIE in industrial engineering from Purdue University in 1988, a BS in the honors curriculum in physics from Purdue in 1990, and his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995. He also undertook additional graduate course work from the Ohio State University. His work experience includes stints with IBM, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and ITT Technical Institute in Austin, Texas. Since 1999 he has been employed as an antenna engineer with Time Domain Corporation in Huntsville, Alabama (http://time-domain.com) where his responsibilities include designing ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas for a variety of radar, positioning, and communications systems. His research focuses on improving UWB antenna design by understanding the fundamental nature of electromagnetic energy and the transformation of reactive to radiant energy.