Over three decades in the specification, design, programming, installation, quality assurance, and technical marketing of telecommunications networks & PROTOCOLS and REAL-TIME control and information systems. Titles and/or functions have included: programmer, lead programmer, systems analyst, computer scientist, SOFTWARE ENGINEER, control systems consultant, network architect, COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS ENGINEER, section manager, department manager, project administrator, PROJECT MANAGER, and various euphemisms for VP-level guru. Have approached networks and systems from both vendors' and users' viewpoints: the former in a variety of positions with four established vendors, the latter as a full service consultant, and both as a contract engineer. Possess systems and software experience at all levels and hardware design experience to the board level. Background in both commercial and DOD/governmental venues. Application areas have included: wireless digital telephony, secure systems & networks, OSI protocols, network control, network modeling and analysis, SCADA, industrial process control, energy management, HVAC, electric utility dispatch & security, image processing/target recognition, protocol design and evaluation, and others ... Possess significant international experience in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. ... EE degree ... Quick study ... Adapt well to the unusual ... Hands-on, solution oriented approach ... Problem solver by nature ... Troubleshooting a specialty.

Program in C, FORTRAN, Pascal, Ada, and virtually any assembly language; excel in C/Unix environments ... Recent experience primarily with real-time embedded processors and RISC-based Unix platforms, but have dealt with many other machines & associated OSs -- e.g., Motorola, Intel, Apple (Macintosh), IBM (PC & compatibles), Sun, Gould/SEL/Encore, HP, Perkin Elmer/Concurrent, Tandem, Modcomp, Xerox, SDS, and a variety of DEC equipment, PDP to VAX to MIPS RISC and Alpha ... Experienced in structured,/top-down and object oriented software design: both system and application software, from requirements to detailed design, individual modules to entire systems ... Understand modems/switches/muxes, wide area networking, LANs, the ISO/OSI model, ITU-T /CCITT standards, satellite RF, telephony (VGPL and PSTN, DDS, ISDN, etc.), Ethernet, OSI protocol stacks and general telecommunications protocols (e.g., X.25, TCP/IP, HDLC/SDLC, CLNP, TP0/2/4, etc.), OSI applications (ROSE, ACSE, MMS, VTP, X.400, X.500, FTAM, etc.), GOSIP, ground level software (drivers, handlers) & Unix kernels, secure networking and trusted computer base techniques, and the full range of digital computing and man/machine interface hardware ... Experience with embedded software development tools and techniques and most Windowing systems (especially X) ... Pioneer in software quality assurance, CASE tools, configuration management, and documentation -- including 2167A implications ... Recognized expert in man/machine interface techniques ... Exceptional writing skills, sharpened by production of thousands of pages of documentation, ranging from proposals to program design to purchase contracts ... Comfortable and effective in verbal presentations to groups of any size ... Known for ability to innovate, especially as regards creative approaches to system, network, and software design and implementation ... Thrive on responsibility and the freedom to discharge it.

Lehigh University, BSEE 1967 ...  U.S. citizen ... single parent: 2 (now long emancipated) children ... height 5' 11" ... weight 175 lbs ... good health ... lapsed DOD SECRET clearance ... off times now mostly spent cruising under sail