Naval Surface Warfare Center Programmer (Co-op student),
Dahlgren, Virginia, alternating semesters 1988-1991.

DARPA contract
Ada Neural Network programmer,
West Virginia Institute of Technology,
Montgomery, West Virginia, summer 1992.

Cray Research Inc. Programmer (Intern),
Optimizing AVS for the Cray Y-MP,
Eagan, Minnesota, summer 1993.

Graduate Assistantship, Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1992-1994.

Teaching Assistantship, University of Utah,
Introduction to Computer Science II (cs202)
Introduction to Computer Graphics (cs431)
Computer-aided Geometric Modeling (cs432)
Salt Lake City, Utah, 1994

Research Assistantship, University of Utah,
Geometric Design and Computation Research Group,
Salt Lake City, Utah, 1995-present

1. Hollerbach, J. M., Cohen, E., Thompson, W. B., Freier, R., Johnson, D. E., and Thompson II, T. V., "Virtual prototyping for human-centric design," in 2000 NSF Design and Manufacturing Research Conference, (Vancouver), January 2000.
   
2. Thompson II, T.V., and Cohen, E., "Direct Haptic Rendering of Complex Trimmed NURBS Models," in Proc. 8th Annual Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, (Nashville, TN), ASME, November 14-16, 1999.
   
3. Johnson, D.E., Thompson II, T.V., Kaplan, M., Nelson, D., and Cohen, E., "Painting Textures with a Haptic Interface," in Proc. Virtual Reality '99, (Houston, TX), pp. 282-285, IEEE, March 13-17, 1999.
   
4. Thompson II, T.V., Johnson, D.E., and Cohen, E., "Direct Haptic Rendering Of Sculptured Models," in Proc. Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, (Providence, RI), pp. 167-176, April, 1997.
   
5. Hollerbach, J.M., Cohen, E., Thompson, W.B., Freier, R., Johnson, D., Nahvi, A., Nelson, D., Thompson II, T.V., and Jacobsen, S.C., "Haptic Interfacing For Virtual Prototyping Of Mechanical CAD Designs," ASME Design for Manufacturing Symposium, (Sacramento, CA), Sept. 14-17, 1997.
   
6. Thompson II, T.V., Nelson, D.D., Cohen, E., and Hollerbach, J.M., "Manueverable Models Within A Haptic Virtual Environment," in Proc. 6th Annual Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, (Dallas, TX), pp. 37-44, ASME, Nov. 15-21, 1997.
   

Dean's List,
West Virginia Institute of Technology, 1988-1992.

Alpha Chi Honor Fraternity,
West Virginia Institute of Technology,
Vice President 1991-1992.

Presidential Leadership Award,
West Virginia Institute of Technology, 1992.

Association of Computing Machinery,
1987-1991, 1992-1994.