My Biography
I have always been interested in helping others understand and use technologies.
In high school I was already helping other students with their math assignments. Since then, I have been helping others with mathematical, chemical, information, instructional, and photographic technologies. I sought a doctorate so that I could understand how mathematics was used in support of scientific explanations and so that I could teach about it at the university level.
As an applied mathematician and a scientist, I have used many numeric and text processing tools to create, to analyze, and to present information. As a new faculty member in 1981, I was helping chemistry students understand how to use personal computers to acquire and analyze data.
In 1996 when Adobe Photoshop was first being used to manipulate digitized photographs, I picked up photography to talk with and to support faculty, staff, and students who were starting to use these digital technologies.
Throughout my career I have been analyzing and supporting information and communication technologies that members of university faculty might and could use in their teaching.
Independent Consultant and Trainer
Instructional and Communication Technologies
Instructional Technology Coordinator
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Director, Information Services
Saint Xavier University
Chicago, Illinois
Director, Academic Computing Services
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Illinois
Director, Academic Computing Services
Roosevelt University
Chicago, Illinois
Chair, Department of Chemistry
Roosevelt University
Chicago, Illinois
Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Roosevelt University
Chicago, Illinois
Ph.D. in Chemistry (Chemical Physics)
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California
“Modified Moment Methods for a Study of the Vibrational Motion of Atoms at the Surface of a Solid” (Doctoral Dissertation)
B.S. in Chemistry (Physical Chemistry)
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois