I have a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. I pursued this degree because (1) electricity is so pervasive in our world, and (2) I wanted to understand computers from the ground up. My sister once commented that she thought I was going to "marry a computer and have little baby calculators". (My wife is very intelligent, but she is real flesh and blood. But our kids are good at math!)

• Made and Implemented all decisions regarding selection of hardware, approval of documentation, and design of software for DASSS
• Controlled design and wrote half the software code, including all Assembly Language, consisting of approximately 10,000 lines of Ada. System used commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware
• Developed a terminal emulation program which communicated via NTDS interface to allow DASSS computer to be used while the trainer was in maintenance mode. Otherwise, DASSS would not have been utilized in this mode
• Designed and Developed one DASSS Engineering Development Model and 12 delivered units for shore based training facilities. At an average cost of $23,500 per unit, replaced a $450,000 system with a plug compatible PC based system that stores the sound data on computer hard disk instead of a physical tape system. Saved taxpayers, government and the U.S. Navy over $5 million by lowering system, maintenance and power consumption costs

• Translated routines of UTS' primary software product, which was originally written in Basic, to Fortran and Assembly to meet needs of next generation of the software product. Accomplished task in a timely fashion which resulted in added efficiency of system, as well as a personal pay raise of 50 percent from $10 to $15 per hour.
• Wrote software to communicate in various protocols with different recorder devices that gather information. This allowed flexibility for Power companies and different software to communicate with all major vendors' recorders to bring the data onto one computer platform.
• Created and Implemented a system that exchanged data at night when the computers were not normally used to ensure that customer, Duke Power, acquired accurate inventory information on a daily basis for their three labs.