The Founders   The Team     Chris Mayfield     Scott Coon     Will Au-Yeung     Ben Jackson     Chad Kubicek     Steve Jenkins     Matt Bruce     Udo Schmitt, PhD     Chris Nolte, PhD		Chris Nolte joined Silicon Age in March of 2001 after obtaining his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Science from the California Institute of Technology. With over five years of scientific programming experience, Chris holds a Java programmer certification from Sun and has worked with XML and XSLT applications that facilitate management and display of database content over the web. Chris received his B.S. in physics from Stanford University. Outside of work, Chris enjoys traveling near and far; he is proficient in both Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.