I am a researcher currently working for Dr. Diane Oyen at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Information Sciences Division. I earned my PhD in Fall 2021 under the direction of Dr. Michael Nelson and Dr. Michele Weigle as a member of the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. At the same time I worked as a Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Martin Klein as a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Research Library Prototyping Team.

Before my research life, I was a software engineer for 18 years with Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Atlantic, now Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic. During that time I worked on a variety of software solutions for conducting inventory and maintenance aboard ships and aircraft. This taught me that most software systems are messy and require a lot of compromises for fielding. I worked with users, program managers, and everything in between. Depending on the project, I may have engaged in requirements analysis, developed software, designed systems, or conducted security audits. Even though it was interesting to solve the unique problems posed by systems with inconsistent or poor connectivity, I decided in 2010 to go back to school and look for new challenges. That brought me to research and thus I have been making the transition from software engineer to researcher ever since.

This web site collects all of my work in one place. If you have questions, please feel free to contact me through any of the social media channels listed on the bottom of the page.

Personal

I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with Valentina Neblitt-Jones and my two cats, Malala and Marjon. Valentina is a librarian by day and has many interests outside of work.

I routinely walk Malala and Marjon when possible. Malala is the more playful cat, often curious about what I’m doing, even if I’m just writing on a whiteboard. Marjon is the stronger cat, often curious about food, who is the cleaner and more etiquette-focused cat of the two. To use an analogy from Neil Simon’s Odd Couple, in terms of upkeep, Marjon is like Felix Ungar and Malala is more like Oscar Madison.

I am avid fan of fiction, especially television. I do believe in the value of fiction for our everday lives. The right fiction can give us hope. Sometimes it is just an escape. Other times it forces us to evaluate the world around us. I think it is important to engage with fiction for these reasons. My entire belief system seems to be built upon some of the aspirational ideas from the American fiction of the 1960s thorugh the 1980s: there is hope, we can work it out if we work together, science is the path toward problem solving, people are not disposable, etc.