Born and raised in a small town in southern Maryland.

Employed at Naval Surface Weapons Center in White Oak, Md. in the late '70s and early '80s while pursuing EE degree from U. of Maryland.

Granted an independent patent US #4,863,567 for "Fluid Distillation Apparatus".

Moved to Silicon Valley in 1984 and worked for 22 years in IBM's disk drive division which was later sold to Hitachi. Nurtured idiot savant talent for software and granted two patents US #5,978,751 (real-time data mining feedback manufacturing) and US#6,937,424 (servo vibration cancellation algorithm).

Quit Hitachi in 2006 to pursue my own interests.

Presently CEO and CTO of "Cool Lighting" developing general lighting using L.E.D. technology and novel heat sinking techniques.

Carbon Nano Tube CNT enthusiast. Conspirator theorist. Rabid technologist.