About this user
A brief history of Tom:
I was born in California but I grew up in Boulder, CO. I worked at NIST as a part-time lab technician for two years while I attended CU-Boulder as an Engineering and Music double-major. I graduated CU with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and spent the Summer working as a care giver at a retirement home on the Hill called The Academy. After the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001, I promptly enlisted in the United States Army as a military linguist. I went to the Defense Language Institute and became semi-fluent in Modern Standard Arabic. After my enlistment ended in 2007, I returned to Colorado and worked as a Systems Engineer for Symmetricom for 2 years. When congress introduced Chapter 33 to the G.I. Bill, I decided to quit my job and go back to school for a PhD. I am currently a PhD-candidate student in the Communications and Signal Processing group of the Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering department at CU.
Hometown
Boulder, CO
Country
United States
Occupation
Systems Engineer, Arabic Linguist, Caregiver, Electrical Engineering Technician
Companies
Symmetricom, US Army, The Academy, NIST
Schools
University of Colorado at Boulder, Defense Language Institute
Interests
Everything