In the summer of 2008 I retired from the US Air Force, left my faculty position at the Air Force Institute of Technology, and accepted a position as a senior mathematician with Boeing Research and Technology in Bellevue WA. Since Boeing only allows me a private (internal) web site, I am indebted to my colleague and friend, Professor Charles Audet, who has been kind enough to both host the NOMADm mixed variable optimization software that I have authored and maintained for several years and to lend me a little space to post some personal information and items of interest.

If you need to contact me by e-mail, you can construct my address by taking the parts of my name given at the top of this page and inserting them into the expression, [FirstName].[MiddleInitial].[LastName]@boeing.com.

I am primarily interested in direct search optimization algorithms and their application to engineering problems. Some of my past work includes the NOMADm software, optimal sensor placement problems in tsunami warning and structural health monitoring, quantitative object reconstruction in x-ray tomography, simulation optimization problems with CPU time correlation, and second-order convergence properties of direct search algorithms.

More recent work at Boeing has included constrained global optimization algorithms, use of derivative-based optimization for engineering design problems, and multidisciplinary analysis and optimization. Applications have included structures, aerodynamics, and aeroacoustic noise.

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