Ambient Sensors, Inc. is a custom electronics design house focused on sensors connected to embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, motion and inertial measurement systems, and application software. We provide product development for our customers in these areas from early prototype to mass manufacturing through our in-house capabilities and relationships with various contract manufacturing firms. We work at the interface between the real world and the interweb!

Currently teaching: Math 360 Engineering StatisticsNASA Micro-Gravity Project: Advisor to student microgravity project flown on NASA Zero-G aircraft. Also advised a student team receiving 2nd place in paper competition (tied with MIT) for a lunar analog project investigating how to manage a permanent-base agricultural repository on the moon.

Founded a privately owned provider of comprehensive IP surveillance solutions that was acquired by Meridex, Inc. in November, 2007. Built and managed all aspects of a startup company, including project management, team development, strategy, business planning, sales and marketing and customer relations.

Designed and conducted laboratory research to better understand phase change behavior of calcogenide materials for HP's atomic resolution storage project - a concentrated effort to identify methods for increasing storage density. Extensive research resulted in creating density increases of 10,000X previous capacities.Technology Innovation and Leadership: Contributed to research that established HP as the standing technology leader in storage, for more than 20 years. Multi-year research: Responsible for a four year study involving 50 scientists and business executives. Investigated thermal, carrier transport and device modeling together with experimental work using a specially- built laser system to cycle material between phases. Scientific American covered the project in a 2003 issue. Thin Film Head Innovation: Designed heads/media for HP's first thin film head disk drive. Research led directly to the company's entry into the PC disk drive marketplace.MR Head Development: Designed simulation and mask layout of dual-stripe MR Head for HP Laboratories. Research led to a storage capacity improvement still used in today's disk drives.Modeling Tools: Developed recording physics and disk drive channel models over span of 20 years. Models included disk drive channel models including optimization of ISI in non-linear channels through application of various encoding and decoding schemes as well as conventional and adaptive digital (FIR) channel equalization schemes.Measurement Tools: Created a heterodyne interferometer system with 0.1 nm resolution and 200 Khz frequency response capable of simultaneous roll, pitch, and flying height. Designed and implemented optical, mechanical and electronic components. System continues to be used by recording industry and others.

Wrote simulation of X-ray detectors and satellite kinematics for X-ray burst detection astronomy program. Granted secret level clearance for a portion of the work.

in Controlled Thermonuclear Reactor Group, performing measurements of high voltage power supplies for a high intensity magnetic field generation experiment.