I received my B.S. at
University of Texas at Dallas in Computer Science. I then went to work for
a couple of years at Geophysical Services, Inc. (then a branch of Texas
Instruments) as a "seismologist" (we did geophysical
processing). I did not much care for the work, so I returned on a research
fellowship to study graduate statistics at U.T.D.
I preferred the pure mathematical side of my study, so I went the following year
to Imperial College of Science and Technology
of the University of London, where
I earned an M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics. I then returned to U.T.D. to earn
my Ph.D. in Mathematics.
Upon completion of my Ph.D. I took a two year visiting teaching position at
Georgia Tech. 
Although I had some valuable experiences there, I felt drawn
to a liberal arts atmosphere. I accepted a position at Austin College in
Fall of 1990, where I am now an Associate Professor and Chair of Mathematics
and Computer Science.
In 1996 I took a one year sabbatical, which included
spending the fall semester doing
research at University of Alaska Fairbanks. I enjoy visiting extreme
places, and I was more than satisfied!
In 2003 I took a half year sabbatical, and I spent part of that time in
northeastern Australia.
