I attended the O.D.T.U earning my B.S. in Architecture and minoring in Civil Engineering with Structural option in 2002.

After working as an Architectural Engineer for two years, in 2004 I was awarded a full-time graduate assistantship to The Pennsylvania State University where my MS research consisted of modeling and nondestructive testing of Guastavino tile domed structures. I have studied the Guastavino domes of the City-County Building in Pittsburgh, PA and New York State Education Building in Albany, NY. Along with my studies on Guastavino style vaulting, I have conducted experimental and analytical research on the structural behavior of Gothic architecture, such as Washington National Cathedral in Washington D.C., Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City, and the Basilica di Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy.

After completing my MS in Architectural Engineering - Structures option in 2006, I decided to continue my education at Penn State where I am currently pursuing a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering - Structures option. My current research consists of probabilistic verification & validation of numerical models against experimental measurements.

My work has earned me a World University Network Fellowship to the University of Sheffield in the U.K. during Spring of 2007 to study The Beverly Minster. I am a recipient of the 2007 Dominick J. Demichele Scholarship Award, the 2007 James L. Noland Student Fellowship and the CERS Best Paper award. During the Spring and Summer semesters of 2008 I was privileged to work as a Graduate Research Assistant on an internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.