About Perry Greenfield

I attended MIT as both an undergraduate and graduate student, geltting a PhD in Physics in 1981 using the Very Large Array to study the first discovered gravitational lens.

From there I took a job in radio engineering at Bell Labs at one of their satellite locations; that department moved back to Homldel a few months before I left to take a job at the Applied Physics Laboratory in 1984. In 1985 I accepted a job at the Space Telescope Science Institute helping calibrate the European Space Agency Faint Object Camera to be launched in the Hubble Space Telescope, which eventually launched April 24, 1990. I continued working on the Faint Object Camera until early 1995, when I took a Software Supervisor position in the Science Software Branch, working for Rick White, who was the branch lead. In 2000 Rick White was promoted to being the Department head, and I became the branch lead, a position I held until 2015 with a gap from 2006 to mid-2007 when the division was, for a time, reorganized. Currently I hold a Consulting Computer Scientist position, which is on a technical parallel track to management.