After receiving his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from UC Santa Cruz and PhD from UC Santa Barbara in Solid State Electrical Engineering he has worked and published on a wide range of material, semiconductor, and chemistry R&D projects in the areas of lithography, photochemistry, x-ray mask fabrication, PVD, and plasma processing. During his 24 years at Plasma-Therm, he has had business unit management and worldwide marketing responsibilities as well as managing the development and release of the plasma dicing product.

Currently, in dual roles as a Principal Scientist and a director in technical marketing, he has recently organized and presented plasma processing workshops at leading institutions throughout the world. His primary focus is on the application of plasma processing for R&D, MEMS, photonics, data storage, power, and compound semiconductor applications. He holds two patents in semiconductor processing and has over 60 publications and conference presentations.

With Plasma-Therm, he has organized and presented plasma processing workshops at leading institutions throughout the world, including Harvard University, UC Berkeley, University of Notre Dame, UC Los Angeles (UCLA), University of South Florida, Stanford University, Lund University (Sweden), IMRE (Singapore), UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), ISCAS (Beijing, China), SINANO (Suzhou, China), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, UT Austin, Cornell University, Pennsylvania State University, KANC (S. Korea), University of Alberta, Weizmann Institute, University of Queensland, University of New South Wales, Politecnico di Milano, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) National Tsing Hua University and in Israel.