Professor, 2006-Present.
Associate Professor, 2002-2006.
Assistant Professor, 1998-2002.
Department of Chemistry,
University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Senior Chemist, 1995-1998.
Nalco Chemical Company, Naperville, IL.
Research in Colloidal Surface Chemistry.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 1992-1995.
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Surface Science Research (with R. Gomer).

Department of Energy Laboratory Graduate Appointee, 1987-1992.
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL.
Developed Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer for the Sensitive Detection of Ions and Laser-Ionized Neutrals Desorbed and Sputtered from Surfaces.

Petroleum Research Fund (ACS): "Studies of the Interfaces between Conjugated Oligomers and Self-Assembled Monolayers" (2005-2007).

National Science Foundation: "Surface Science and Optical Spectroscopy Studies of Oligothiophene Adsorption on Clean and Oxygen-Dosed Aluminum Surfaces" (2001-2004).

National Science Foundation: "Development of Low-Cost Spectroscopy Experiments for Physical Chemistry" (2003-2005).

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation: "The Development of Affordable Blue Diode Laser and Light-Emitting Diode Chemistry Experiments for High School and Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories" (2000-2002).

Petroleum Research Funds (ACS): "Determination of the Degree of Metallicity of Metals in Contact with Thin Films of Conjugated Polymers" (2000-2001).

Research Corporation: An Electrical Contact Probe for Studying Electroluminescence and Failure Mechanisms of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes in Ultrahigh Vacuum" (1999-2000).

Teaching Excellence Award
The University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2002.

Phillips Petroleum Graduate Student Fellowship,
The Ohio State University, 1985.

Magna Cum Laude Graduate,
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1985.

American Institute of Chemists Award for the Most Outstanding Senior Majoring in Chemistry,
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1985.

Full Four Year Academic Scholarship,
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1981-1985.

The American Chemical Society

The American Physical Society

The Materials Research Society