I grew up in Belton, Texas, a small town in Central Texas, and attended Belton High School. I graduated from Texas A&M University in May 1999 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. While I was at A&M, I met and fell in love with a wonderful girl named Melissa, and we were married August 28, 1999!
After we got married, we moved to Pleasant Hill, California. I attended graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley, where I got my M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
While at Berkeley, I was affiliated with the Berkeley Computer-Aided Manufacturing (BCAM) group, where I conducted research in the field of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, a technology under development for making integrated circuits with feature sizes below 30 nanometers. This work was done in conjunction with the Advanced Light Source, a synchrotron facility at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and was supported by the contributors to the Feature-Level Compensation and Control project. I also conducted research into sources of systematic variability in the photolithography process used in semiconductor manufacturing. Here is a list of publications.
After I graduated from Berkeley in 2004, I took a job with a major semiconductor manufacturing company in Silicon Valley. We lived in Sunnyvale, California for about 18 months, and then moved to Dresden, Germany for a six month assignment with my company. We moved to Austin, Texas in September, 2006.
My interests include photography (here’s a gallery of some of my favorite photos, although it’s pretty out-of-date), sports, and outdoor activities such as cycling, hiking, and backpacking.
