Genetic Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Texas A&M University.

CAREER

I started my career as the 3rd coder at Continental Airlines newly formed IT division. Previously all software related work was outsourced to EDS. Our team created www.continental.com.

I later moved to the Bay Area and worked at several start-ups including Petopia and Gilead Sciences. I made a temporary move to the Dubai and Abu Dhabi to work at Kodak, Middle East for two years. I returned to the Bay Area and worked for Bayer, SunPower corp and finally in 2009 I joined the DOE's national science research center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the nanoscale research center, where I currently work.

INTERESTS

Skydiving (class A license), bicycling, banjo.