Occupation
I create and maintain web pages for church and hobby organizations and small businesses. I created my first HTML web page in 1993.
A retired Electrical Engineer specializing in communications by training, I have worked for three of the premier companies of the aerospace industry for over 38 years. I spent most of twenty years in software and system engineering, including application program development, software technology investigations and configuration management.
I have written communication system analysis and simulation software, embedded avionics system software, and radar system data reduction software in FORTRAN, Ada, C, C++, Assembly Language, a little bit of yacc and lex. I have used script languages including Bourne Shell, C Shell, Korn Shell, and Tcl/Tk for IBM DOS, VAX/VMS, and UNIX operating systems. As a supervisor, I have a working knowledge of X Windows, system administration, and data base systems. Three times in my career, I have had to read (but not generate) JOVIAL '73 code. Oh yes, at one company I had to use a MacIntosh computer on an office network.
Though I have also worked on the F-15, A-12, YF-23, and E-8 aircraft
projects, I like the F/A-18 the best, probably because I worked on it for nine
years.
I took my first computer class from Dr. John McCarthy in 1960.
I bought my first home computer in 1978, an Apple II, serial A2S1-3669.