Dedicated educator, administrator, and multi-disciplinary researcher with a passion for creating instructional environments that respond to societal and economic change with agility, while providing stimulating and rewarding educational venues for students and faculty. Passionate, motivating leader focused on applying the accumulated experiences of a career that spanned academia, large and small private industry, public and private sector research initiatives and technology commercialization to benefit the next generation of scientists, engineers, technologists and business leaders.Innovative instructor with experience spanning engineering, science, technology and business. Passionate mentor, focused on student success and ultimate career satisfaction and happiness. Dedicated to the contention that academic training should be challenging and mind expanding, but also fun.Thirty years of experience in contract research and development with high impact successes in initiatives funded by the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, State Governments and numerous industrial and commercial organizations. Multiple successful transitions of cost-effective process technologies, particularly in the area of advanced materials and manufacturing. Principal Investigator on a wide range of advanced multidisciplinary research programs with an emphasis on rapid technology maturation and implementation. Special interest in development of rapid technology transition tools based on sound understanding of process and material physics. Strong track record in research administration with intimate knowledge of federal, state and private sector contracting issues, opportunities and challenges.