Welcome to my site!  I graduated from Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA, with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in May 2005. I subsequently worked for Boeing in the Integrated Defense Systems division in the Seattle area for several years, and then went back to Graduate School in Electrical Engineering (Energy Systems) at Oregon State.  I currently work as a technical leader in Power Systems Engineering for Eaton Corporation.

I received my M.S. in September 2010 and my Ph.D in May 2013.  My research involved exploring the impact of renewable energy (wind, solar, wave) on the grid in the Pacific Northwest and finding ways to better integrate renewable energy into the power system (using energy storage, novel control schemes, demand response, etc.).

The name for this blog, Knowledge in Action, comes from one of my favorite quotes, by the noted author/philosopher Kahlil Gibran: “A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”