About Me

Born in a small town near Shreveport Lousiana, I grew up in lower Manhattan and the Bronx, New York. I graduated from Salesian High School (New Rochelle, NY) in 1962 and Manhattan College in 1966 with a B.S. in Biology. I completed an M.S. in Bioengineering in 1973 from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

After college, I spent a year as a lab technician doing low dose radiation survival experiments at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and then started a new career as a Nuclear Medicine technician at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and later New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. My major career in computers started in August 1972 when I joined Digital Equipment Corporation first in marketing, then software support in Maynard, Massachusetts as technical backup to a world-wide software organization. I relocated to Framingham, MA for this job, and then transferred to Orlando, Florida as a field software consultant in April 1978. After takeovers by COMPAQ in 1998 and Hewlett Packard in May 2002, I accepted an early retirement incentive effective June 30, 2002.

In retirement, I’ve kept busy with tennis, bicycle riding, fitness workouts along with my other hobbies (computers, robotics, LEGOS, photography)