BS Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Thirteen years experience designing & programming measurement & control instrumentation for missile systems, including six years as Project Engineer for Peacekeeper, SICBM, and Rail Garrison ICBM systems.
Past six years employed as Systems Manager for a local Ace Hardware chain, managing two networks; one based on an obsolete SuperDOS OS using RS232 networking, the other built on WinNT4 using 100BaseT networking.
Programming experience using assembly, FORTRAN, BASIC, HP JCL, Prolog, Ada, Pascal, hpl, and HP MCS languages; currently learning VB, VC++, J++, Java.
Avid darts player, though not a good one... Fair to excellent 12-string guitar player, depending on who you ask.
Currently VP of the local Kiwanis Club, Director of the United Way, and very active in both
Have held licenses as a Real Estate broker and Securities dealer - once ordained as a minister on a whim.
Raised in sunny California, before it became the Peoples' Republic of California. Relocated to Arizona to escape being homeless after peace broke out, and discovered what it is like to live in the United States again.
Objective: To learn all there is to know. I know I'll be disappointed one day, but I've made a good start, and the eventual dissappointment is likely to be brief.