Education
- PhD, Michigan State University, 1973
- MS, Michigan State University, 1970
- BS, Wittenberg University, 1968
Employment
- Seagate Technology, Research Division, San
Jose-Fremont, CA, 1999-present
- Quinta Corporation, San Jose, CA, 1996-1999
- IBM Corporation, Storage Systems Division,
Rochester, MN; Tucson, AZ; San Jose, CA; 1978-1996
- Virginia Commonwealth University: Assistant
Professor, 1974-1978
- Michigan State University: Postdoctoral Fellow,
1973-1974
Professional
Activities
- National Storage Industries Consortium (NSIC),
Working Group Drafting the Roadmap on Hybrid Technologies for Magnetic
and Magneto-Optical Disk Data Storage, 1999
- NSIC, INSIC Optical Data Storage Roadmap
Workshops, 1996, 1999, 2003
- NSIC EHDR – Representative on hybrid recording
technology, 2000
- Task Leader and Steering Committee, INSIC / U.S.
Department of Commerce Advanced Technology Program (ATP) project on Heat
Assisted Magnetic Recording, 2001-2006
- Patent Review Board, Seagate Technology
- Seagate liaison to Optical Data Storage Center,
University of Arizona
Research
- Data storage technology – the physics of magnetic,
optical, and thermomagnetic recording. Component and system design.
Computer modeling and component / system simulation (magnetic,
micromagnetic, thermal, optical). Magneto-optic recording. Issues in
recording system / component characterization and metrology.
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