Education

1969-1974	Experimental School #1140, Moscow	Certificate, 1973
1975-1976	Coral Gables Senior High School	Diploma, 1975
1976-1979	University of Miami	B.Sc., Mathematics, Summa cum laude, Departmental Honors, 1979
1980-1990	University of California at Berkeley	Ph.D., Mathematics, 1990 (advisor: Maxwell Rosenlicht)

Academic positions

1984	Junior Specialist	University of California at Berkeley
1985	Acting Instructor	University of California at Berkeley
1991	Visiting Scholar	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1991-1997	Assistant Professor	University of Texas at San Antonio
1997-present	Associate Professor	University of Texas at San Antonio
2000-2001	Visiting Associate Professor	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2006-2008	Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Sciences	University of Texas at San Antonio

Industrial positions

1986-1988	Senior Software Engineer	Guzik Technical Enterprises, Sunnyvale, California
1989	Consultant	Guzik Technical Enterprises, San José, California
1990-1991	Senior Researcher	Fluid & Power Research Institute, San Francisco, California
1992	Consultant	Galactic Technologies, Inc., San Antonio, Texas
1994	Consultant	Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

Honors and awards

1976-1979	University of Miami Physics Department Scholarship
1979-1980	Eastman-Kodak Scholarship
1980-1981	University of California Regents Fellowship
1982-1983	University of California Regents Fellowship
1996	University of Texas at San Antonio International Development Grant
1999	Faculty Excellence Award in recognition of Excellence In Teaching from UTSA students and Disability Services
2003	The Amber award for outstanding contribution and service to students from the University of Texas at San Antonio Ambassadors
2003	Faculty Excellence Award in recognition of Excellence In Teaching from UTSA students and Disability Services
2006	President's Distinguished Achievement Award in recognition of teaching excellence

Grants

1993-1994	Co-PI	The Effect of Disease on Signal Processing Characteristics of the Human Visual System, U.S. Department of the Air Force, Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas and Conceptual Mindworks, Inc., San Antonio, Texas
1995	PI	Highly Accurate Numerical Methods for Fluid Flow, University of Texas at San Antonio Faculty Research Award
2006-present	Co-PI	Undergraduate Biology and Mathematics program, National Science Foundation

Professional work

1985	Translator	O. I. Bogoyavlensky, Methods in the Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems in Astrophysics and Gas Dynamics, Springer-Verlag, 0387136142
1993-2000	Test administrator	Bexar County MATHCOUNTS
1994-2000	Webmaster	Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio
1995-present	Webmaster	E.C. Zeeman
1999-present	Webmaster	Elements of Abstract and Linear Algebra by Edwin H. Connell
2000	Co-organizer and webmaster	South Texas Mathematics Consortium 8th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas
2001-2008	Editor	Science/Math/Publications/Online_Texts and Collections at Open Directory (used by Google.com)
2002	Co-organizer and webmaster	Texas PDE Seminar 2002, San Antonio, Texas
2002-present	Moderator	Abstract and Linear Algebra Forum
2008	Co-webmaster	Irving Kaplansky + Ternary Quadratic Forms