Profile:
Thirty five years experience as a teacher in astronomy and science. Experience as a software designer and manager of people/programs for multinational companies and startups. Life science payload developer for the International Space Station. FAA Certificated Flight Instructor. Speaks French and some German.
Education:
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN AERONAUTICAL AND ASTRONAUTICAL ENGINEERING (GRANTED 1992)
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (1989–1990)
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (GRANTED 1981)
MAJOR: PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY (1976–1977)
City College of San Francisco, De Anza Community College, Foothill Community College, Mission College, West Valley College
COURSES IN ASTRONOMY , COOKING, LANGUAGE, MATH, MUSIC, & PARK MANAGEMENT.
LA SORBONNE & PARIS LANGUES, PARIS, FRANCE
CURRICULUM: FRENCH CIVILIZATION AND LANGUAGE (1992-1993)
Employment:
1978—present Member
of the Faculty, Instructor
West
Valley College, De Anza College, San Francisco
State
University, Lawrence Hall of Science & Vista College
Saratoga,
Cupertino, San Francisco & Berkeley, CA
Developing curriculum and
exhibits, evaluating effectiveness of teaching methods, teaching &
presenting workshops in the physical sciences. Teaching courses in general, solar system and stellar
astronomy and conducting laboratory experimentation.
1997—present Flight
Instructor, Ground Instructor Hayward, Palo
Alto, & San Carlos CA
FAA certificated ground instructor (advanced) and airplane
flight instructor (instrument).
1996—present Consultant Menlo
Park, CA
Internet and multimedia related technical and business
development including strategy development and marketing research.
1975—2003 Instructor,
Lecturer, Manager, Technician, Laserist
Morrison
Planetarium and the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
Laser
Images Incorporated, Van Nuys, CA
Giving live multi-media
planetarium presentations (over 3000) about the night sky and various
astronomical topics. Maintaining
and operating the planetarium star projector, projection and sound
equipment. Performed LASER light
shows. Gave instruction in
observational astronomy equipment and techniques.
1995—1996 Hardware
Engineering Manager Digidesign,
Palo Alto, CA
Assigned resources to seven
projects (audio, video and electronic music hardware development for the
Macintosh and PC). Coordinating
schedules, leading meetings, writing status reports and performance reviews. Budgeted $2 million for personnel, CAE
tools, and prototype development.
Program manager for company’s transition to PCI bus; scheduled the
program, decided where to take on risk to accelerate first customer ship date
(saved 4 months), direction of and conflict resolution between company
resources.
1993—1995 Senior
Systems Engineer NASA Ames Research Center-Lockheed
Martin, Moffett Field, CA
Developed facility class, life
science payloads (Gravitational Biology Facility, Centrifuge Facility), for the
International Space Station.
Conceptualized with integrated product teams in science, engineering and
operations to create modular experiments and supporting systems. Baselined Science Technical
Requirements complete with traceability.
Completed feasibility study phase. Fashioned specifications and led System Requirements
Review. Established interface
standards with Human Research Facility and Express Rack programs. Architected control and data systems
interface. Devised, implemented
and operated testbeds. Recruited science
investigators. Spearheaded a new
project information system.
1983—1991 Integration
Consultant, Researcher, Systems Analyst Tandem
Computers, Cupertino, CA
Fostered relationships with data
communications hardware vendors and created heterogeneous environments (DOS,
Guardian, Macintosh, UNIX) and analyzed performance over WANs and LANs.
Examined emerging and enabling
technologies including parallel distributed processing, CASE tools, expert
systems, and object-oriented technology.
Made strategic recommendations to executive staff and board of directors
on advanced manufacturing, leading to research projects with the Department of
Defense and Northrop. Integrated
workstations (Apollo, Macintosh, NeXT, Sun) with Tandem mainframes and
demonstrated advanced capability in the areas of imaging, communications, and
cooperative processing.
Made technical presentations, and
demonstrated software and hardware products leading to sales that exceeded
quotas. Aided marketing on RFPs,
quotes, system sizing, etc.
Post-sales technical support in the areas of operating systems, fault
tolerant programming, on-line transaction processing, performance and tuning,
and data base management. Designed
and implemented a message-based, timed delivery system, updating a corporate
database to track remote system configurations that led to a system for
auditing customer systems.
1981—1983 Development
Engineer TAK
Automation, Burlingame, CA
Wrote software in assembly and
FORTH and developed hardware for 6800 and 68000 microprocessor-based
controllers used in real-time process control. Automation enabled our customers to stay in business and
better compete against competition by increasing quality, reducing cost and
time to market.
1973—1975 Shop
personnel, Lecturer The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Developed and repaired exhibits demonstrating principles of
electricity and magnetism, light, color, perception, etc. Explained science exhibits to museum
public and lectured during period of record museum attendance for the
spacecraft flybys of Jupiter and Saturn.
1978—present Member
of the Faculty, Instructor
West
Valley College, De Anza College, San Francisco
State
University, Lawrence Hall of Science & Vista College
Saratoga,
Cupertino, San Francisco & Berkeley, CA
Developing curriculum and
exhibits, evaluating effectiveness of teaching methods, teaching &
presenting workshops in the physical sciences. Teaching courses in general, solar system and stellar
astronomy and conducting laboratory experimentation.
1997—present Flight
Instructor, Ground Instructor Hayward, Palo
Alto, & San Carlos CA
FAA certificated ground instructor (advanced) and airplane
flight instructor (instrument).
1996—present Consultant Menlo
Park, CA
Internet and multimedia related technical and business
development including strategy development and marketing research.
1975—2003 Instructor,
Lecturer, Manager, Technician, Laserist
Morrison
Planetarium and the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
Laser
Images Incorporated, Van Nuys, CA
Giving live multi-media
planetarium presentations (over 3000) about the night sky and various
astronomical topics. Maintaining
and operating the planetarium star projector, projection and sound
equipment. Performed LASER light
shows. Gave instruction in
observational astronomy equipment and techniques.
1995—1996 Hardware
Engineering Manager Digidesign,
Palo Alto, CA
Assigned resources to seven
projects (audio, video and electronic music hardware development for the
Macintosh and PC). Coordinating
schedules, leading meetings, writing status reports and performance reviews. Budgeted $2 million for personnel, CAE
tools, and prototype development.
Program manager for company’s transition to PCI bus; scheduled the
program, decided where to take on risk to accelerate first customer ship date
(saved 4 months), direction of and conflict resolution between company
resources.
1993—1995 Senior
Systems Engineer NASA Ames Research Center-Lockheed
Martin, Moffett Field, CA
Developed facility class, life
science payloads (Gravitational Biology Facility, Centrifuge Facility), for the
International Space Station.
Conceptualized with integrated product teams in science, engineering and
operations to create modular experiments and supporting systems. Baselined Science Technical
Requirements complete with traceability.
Completed feasibility study phase. Fashioned specifications and led System Requirements
Review. Established interface
standards with Human Research Facility and Express Rack programs. Architected control and data systems
interface. Devised, implemented
and operated testbeds. Recruited science
investigators. Spearheaded a new
project information system.
1983—1991 Integration
Consultant, Researcher, Systems Analyst Tandem
Computers, Cupertino, CA
Fostered relationships with data
communications hardware vendors and created heterogeneous environments (DOS,
Guardian, Macintosh, UNIX) and analyzed performance over WANs and LANs.
Examined emerging and enabling
technologies including parallel distributed processing, CASE tools, expert
systems, and object-oriented technology.
Made strategic recommendations to executive staff and board of directors
on advanced manufacturing, leading to research projects with the Department of
Defense and Northrop. Integrated
workstations (Apollo, Macintosh, NeXT, Sun) with Tandem mainframes and
demonstrated advanced capability in the areas of imaging, communications, and
cooperative processing.
Made technical presentations, and
demonstrated software and hardware products leading to sales that exceeded
quotas. Aided marketing on RFPs,
quotes, system sizing, etc.
Post-sales technical support in the areas of operating systems, fault
tolerant programming, on-line transaction processing, performance and tuning,
and data base management. Designed
and implemented a message-based, timed delivery system, updating a corporate
database to track remote system configurations that led to a system for
auditing customer systems.
1981—1983 Development
Engineer TAK
Automation, Burlingame, CA
Wrote software in assembly and
FORTH and developed hardware for 6800 and 68000 microprocessor-based
controllers used in real-time process control. Automation enabled our customers to stay in business and
better compete against competition by increasing quality, reducing cost and
time to market.
1973—1975 Shop
personnel, Lecturer The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Developed and repaired exhibits demonstrating principles of
electricity and magnetism, light, color, perception, etc. Explained science exhibits to museum
public and lectured during period of record museum attendance for the
spacecraft flybys of Jupiter and Saturn.