I'm a physicist at NIST in Boulder, CO. My BA is from CU, Boulder, where I did undergraduate research in ESR of Mn-doped LiF, QCD glueball simulations, and beam position monitors at SLAC. I attended the University of California, Irvine, for graduate work where I studied magnetism of ultra-thin Fe films on Cu(100) using spin-polarized electron spectroscopy. We discovered a temperature dependent spin reorientation transition and measured spin-dependent electron transmission for the first time. Subsequently I worked at IBM Almaden and then NRL as a postdoc, and did a faculty appointment at Virginia Commonwealth University. At VCU I received an NSF Young Investigator award along with matching funds, a Research Corporation Grant, and a NATO Linkage grant. I moved back to Boulder to work at NIST in magnetic data storage, where I advanced the field of magnetic data storage and worked with the FBI to develop real-time magnetic tape imaging. Due to my surface science experience I started working on epitaxial tunnel junctions for phase-qubits, and have migrated my research to multi-transmon circuits and quantum process tomography.