I've been at UCSD for 29 years, 28 of them at CASS. In that time I have worked on many projects, among them:

• Data analysis software for the UCSD missions aboard the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft.
• I spent years traveling around the U.S. on the UCSD Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) project, one of the original five scientific instruments flown on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).  Martin-Marietta Aerospace in Denver, CO, now part of Lockheed Martin (LM), was the contractor that built the FOS.  At Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, all of the HST science instruments were integrated.  The whole "marching army" (as one of the technical managers once referred to us) then traveled to Lockheed Missiles & Space Corporation (now the other half of LM) in Sunnyvale, CA, for integration and testing of the entire HST. My last posting was the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) located at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, to work on commanding sequences for FOS operations.
• In 1990 I transistioned to working on the flight, test and data analysis software for the HEXTE instrument aboard the RXTE spacecraft.  Launced in 1995, this project has been collecting data ever since.
• In 1993, even as I continued working on the HEXTE, I began working on different projects, some space related and some not.  I worked on the LWS spectrometer for the CASS Infrared Astronomy group which was installed on the Keck I telescope in Hawaii but is now considered a "Past Instrument".   I worked on instrument control software for the Atmospheric Research Laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on a project to use solar and infrared radiometers to acquire and analyze airborne and ground-based radiometric measurements.
• From 2000 to 2004 I worked on the data pipeline software for the OSIRIS integral field spectrometer installed on the Keck II telescope in Hawaii.
• Most recently I have been working on instrument design and detector development for a variety of projects all related to measuring X-rays and Gamma-rays with Cadmium Zinc Telluride detectors.