About Me

Web Development

Thanks for visiting my site. In addition to teaching at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy, I also maintain several websites on the internet for fun and profit. My first website was an outline I used throughout graduate school to document all possible references on peroxisome prolfierator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha). While still available online, it hasn't been updated in years. However, it continues to receive a large number of hits. [link]

As a scientist, I was fortunate enough to study under Jack Vanden Heuvel, an expert in polymerase chain reaction and an Associate Professor in Agricultural Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. As a graduate student, I learned the real time PCR technique which has since become the gold standard for PCR. I developed a training website for real time PCR as a postdoc in part to help train others in the laboratory and for use in conjunction with teaching at Lehigh University. [link]

As co-Director of Education for the CounterACT Research Center of Excellence at UMDNJ-Rutgers University, I developed a website to highlight the progress of the center together with Jeffrey Laskin. [link] Perhaps the best feature of this site is the reference library which is the accumulated references of ALL of the literature on sulfur mustard. This site uses Drupal, a content management software package.

For personal projects, I've designed websites for family members. My wife, Jaime Thorne, is a French Horn player for the United States Coast Guard band. She also teaches lessons for students. [link] My wife also performs in the Radiance Quintet whose site I designed [link]. I also developed a restaurant website for my cousin's pizza shop, Cerino's pizza [link].

More recently, I've switched over to using Drupal to aid with web design and content management. The University Center for Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response (UCDPER) and the Boston Ithaca-Islet Club websites both use this system. For the latter group, I set up a meeting registration site that collected registration information for over 70 registrants.

If you would like a quote for the design of your own website, please contact me. I specialize in scientific sites and aid with content generation as well as simple site design and have created a few sites for commercial purposes as well.