Entrepreneur, Inventor, Physicist
Greater New York City Area
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Physicist
Greater New York City Area
Matlab, Ruby-on-Rails, HTML/CSS, Python, Ruby, OS X, Windows, Linux, LaTex
(Higher Education industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Recently received PhD in Physics and am working at the Institute of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers
(Internet industry)
January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)
Developed a private tutoring business for high school students in the New York City area.
At any time I employed up to four tutors.
Topics include: Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Biology.
(Internet industry)
January 2002 — August 2008 (6 years 8 months)
Employer: Dist. Prof. R.R. Alfano, NASA Center for Optical Sensing and Imaging
Conceived, designed, and implemented a novel on-board, real-time optical ice detection system for airplanes and other vehicles. Patent Pending.
Developed data acquisition software to process CCD data in optical imaging experiments.
Studying ultrafast lasers, Raman spectroscopy, and properties of beams of light with angular momentum
Companies /Organizations worked with include
(Hospitality industry)
January 2000 — January 2008 (8 years 1 month)
Designed, deployed, and maintained a web page for this small New York business that has brought in up to 20% of the hotels daily reservations via an online reservations.
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry)
January 2001 — January 2006 (5 years 1 month)
Teacher of Pre-Algebra, Algebra, and Geometry.
Head Coach of Cross Country, Winter Track, and Track & Field (2001-2006)
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
May 2002 — September 2005 (3 years 5 months)
(Internet industry)
January 1999 — January 2001 (2 years 1 month)
Developed an experiment to discover a new manifestation of a geometric Berry phase and published in Physical Review Letters.
Designed and built a laser tweezer system to be used by undergraduate students to test fundamental physics.
Ph.D. Physics , Physics , 2003 — 2008
Course Work: Electromagnetic Theory I & II, Quantum Mechanics I & II, Quantum Information Theory I & II, Analytical Mechanics, Mathematical Methods, Quantum Theory of Solids, Optics, Computer Simulations, Science of Finance I & II, Nano Technology
Physics 1997 — 2001
physics, new technology, sailing, cycling, running
American Physical Society, Optical Society of America