Graduated in 2003 from Rutgers University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Worked a couple years for the Navy at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD), providing modeling and simulation work for ship structures and propulsors. Then spent a couple year working for General Dynamics AIS working on undersea hardware design, analysis and thermal testing and analysis of electronic components and systems. Began employment with the Army at Armaments Center in 2008 in the fuze division, beginning with hand grenade fuzing, then supported mortar fuzing  and then medium caliber fuzing. I became a Team Lead in 2013, overseeing hand grenade, medium caliber, shoulder launched and artillery fuzing. In 2017 I became branch chief and have been serving in that capacity since.