Nineteen Hundred and Fifty Five ... a short fifty four years ago ...  my family made Cocoa, Florida, their home. My sister and I atteneded and graduated from Cocoa High School.  I worked for Greyhoud Van Line on Oleander Street the summer following my graduation from Cocoa High.  Later that summer I landed a job with RCA out t the Tech Lab and became a Data Reduction Mathematician.  Recognition of the fact that one can not move on in life without a college degree,  I quit a well paying position with RCA and crammed a five year Electricl Engineering degree into two and two thirds years ... the equivalent of 8 semesters under U of F's "tri-mester" scheduling system.

Following college, for thirty-nine years, I did all that I could do to help out military troops do their job better. My two years in Thailand were most gratifying as it was there I helped to keep the bad guys from shooting down our jets by making sure our electronic countermeasures were working at 100% effectiveness.  As an Electrical Engineer, my education served me well as I helped to modernize the military equipment used by our troops.  At General Electric in Utica, I sold programs that  promised to revolutionize airborned radar systems.  In Dayton Ohio, as GE's Science and Technology guru, I helped make smalleryet better electric motors by helping to create small, powerful, Samarium Cobalt magnets.  I later worked with the team at Bell Aerospace in Buffalo, NY, that designed and produced the Automatic Carrier Landing System.  ACLS, as it is called,  was used extensively to land Naval aircraft on the decks of heaving, pitching, rolling, moving aircraft carriers.  The remarkable thing about the system lies in the fact that its job automatically ... no pilot intervention.   

We moved to Nashua New Hampshire in 1991 Then I went to Greenlawn NY in 1994 and  joined a great company, Hazeltine Corporation.  There I was responsible for plannig and marketing a host of advanced development programs aimed at applying some of the most brilliant ideas that one could conceive within the realm of science and technology. Through a series of several consolidations, the company became part of what is now BAE Systems.