Education

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Ph.D. CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
Received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics from the University of Virginia specializing in Solid State Physics. Dissertation topic: Optical Properties of Crystalline Copper and Copper-Aluminum Alloys.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, B.S.E. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN
Received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree from the University of Michigan. Major subject was Engineering Physics with a minor in Instrumentation Engineering.

Summary Software Experience

Experience gained during a 31 year career in software design and development in large system and workstation environments includes:
  • Design of systems level software using wide variety of design techniques
  • Communications development with TCP/IP and SNA
  • Integration and testing of large scale systems
  • Maintenance programming of IBM operating system components
  • Principal investigator for a long term IR&D project
  • Man-machine interface (MMI) definition and prototyping
  • Capacity planning analysis of actual and proposed computer systems
  • Design and development of logic synthesis transforms for Electric Design Automation
  • Development of a natural language database query interface
  • Structured and text-based database design/development
  • Held EBI security clearances
  • Design for secure computer systems
  • Design and development of embedded systems
  • ISO9000 certified auditor
  • Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) manager

Publications

Centralized Control for Distributed Processing Networks, Twenty First Annual ACM Technical Symposium, Computers and Government, June 17, 1982.

Interband Optical Properties and Electronic Structure of Alpha-Phase Disordered Copper-Aluminum Alloys, Phys. Rev.B.9, #8(3285), 1974.

Optical Transitions between Conduction Bands in Copper and Copper Based Alloys, Phys. Rev. Lett., 30,#12(549), 1973.

Fermi Surface of Alpha-Phase, CU-Al Alloys - Comparison of Optical and Positron Annihilation Results, Physics Letters, 40A(205), 1972.

Speeches

"Product Distribution System Utilizing Distributed Processing Systems" was given at the SHARE 59 Conference, March, 1982.

"Residential Uses of Solar Energy" was given to a monthly meeting of the Washington D.C., IEEE Chapter, January, 1977.

Companies

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