Biography

I joined Menlo’s faculty in 2007, and I teach Mechanical Engineering, Design & Architecture, and Applied Entrepreneurship. I also serve as the advisor to the student Asian Affinity Alliance and API Faculty Group.

I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and I studied for one year at Waseda University in Japan. I worked for 18 years in the private sector for both start-ups (e.g. Ultrapointe, HPL Technologies, and tauMetrix) and large companies (e.g. KLA-Tencor, JDS-Uniphase, and SGI) in capacities ranging from engineering to marketing to business development. Most of my private sector work was in the semiconductor capital equipment industry and thus I have traveled extensively throughout Asia. My first teaching job was in 2001 at Kamehameha Schools in Hawaii.

I have a wide range of interests which include travel, F1, jazz, architecture, photography, fly fishing, ham radio, politics, movies, space flight, high-tech gadgets, good food, great wine, and bad golf. My wife works in the Menlo College Counseling office, and I have two boys and two dogs.