I completed my Ph.D.  in Linguistics at the University of Arizona in 1999. My interests include phonology and computational linguistics. I work as a software engineer at Motorola. 

My dissertation includes a working model of Optimality Theory for phonological features, implemented in Java. 

• Abstract 
• Turkish vowel harmony example 
• Mende tone association example 
• Documentation for Java code (generated with javadoc) 
• Java source files