Graduated with an M.S. from Stanford in 1998 and moved to DC. As a New York born and raised guy I didn't want to be too far from home, and other personal reasons took me to DC at that time. I've been here ever since - working in a couple of areas of the DC space community, including some additional time away from a paying job as a graduate student. I've been at NASA since 2004, working mostly in PAE during that time. I've been in ESMD at NASA HQ for about 18 months, working on establishing international partnerships for our eventual return to the Moon. And I recently got married.