His responsibilities include teaching and advancing the MSE curriculum within the Department of Engineering. In addition, he holds an appointment on the Graduate Faculty of the University of Maine (UMaine), where he is instrumental in supporting research and development for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. At UMaine, he also supports the Master of Science Teaching (MST) program whose mission is to strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education at the secondary school level. He has eighteen years of industrial, manufacturing and academic experience that encompasses the fields of materials engineering, applied physics, reliability engineering, acoustics, applied statistics, shock and vibration, sensor design, radiation effects, and technical marketing.