I am currently a Design Ergonomist and User Experience Researcher working on computer input devices for Microsoft. At Microsoft, one of the first projects I worked on was the Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 and the Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000. Since then, I've worked on a bunch of really cool projects, including the recently released Arc Touch Mouse.

Prior to Microsoft, I was a graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering department at U. C. Berkeley. I got my undergraduate degree from the University of Utah, after which I worked at Icon Health and Fitness designing treadmills for the Weslo, Pro-form, NordicTrack, Reebok, Image, and HealthRider brands.

My graduate work focused on working in the area of Human-Computer Interaction to explore ways in which humans can use two hands while interfacing with a computer. This project has a software component aimed at identifying and testing input methods which enable bimanual computer interfacing. In addition, there is a hardware component which enables both hands to provide input, as well as addressing several ergonomic deficiencies found in many of today's standard input devices. See the 'research' section of this web page for more details.

Click here to listen to me give a pitch for some of Microsoft's comfort products..

Here's a one minute video of what I do at Microsoft..

I'm not currently doing the best job of keeping this site up to date (I prefer working on great projects rather than going back and writing about them). But, there's still plenty of cool stuff here - thanks for visiting!