Earning a Living and Beyond |
I am a systems engineer and analyst by profession. My career started at Bell Laboratories in 1965 when I was hired on as a technician. In 1971, I received a Bachelor of Science degree from Monmouth College (now Monmouth University) in Long Branch, New Jersey; and two years later, in 1973, an MSEE degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (Brooklyn Polly as we used to called it) in Brooklyn, New York. I then joined a systems engineering design group at Bell Laboratories that later went on to develop the first commercial cellular system in the United States. |
I am also a holder of two patents, both in wireless, and have authored and presented many technical papers on that subject to the professional technical community. In March 1978, I was privileged to receive IEEE's Vehicular Technology Group’s Paper of the Year Award, and in March 1984, I received Bell Laboratories' Distinguished Technical Staff Award. I am also a member of the Eta Kapa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society. Over the years I have expanded my interests to other technical fields such as aerodynamics, hydrostatics and hydrodynamics, and naval architecture. I am also a holder of a Private Pilot Certificate with over 200 hours in single engine land aircraft. |
In 1990 I was asked to join Bell Laboratories' internal Technical Education Center to lead a small group of people that created a wireless curriculum for associate learner development. In that capacity I was directly involved in developing and teaching courses in advanced wireless technologies in addition to managing the training group. I then left the Labs in early 2001 to join a small technical training organization where I continued to develop and teach courses on wireless to the technical staff of several large high-tech companies that were involved in building various products. |
Now that I no longer have to work full time for a living, I have much more time to spend doing the things the really enjoy doing. My office, which doubles as a spare guest room, is set up with all I need to pursue my various interests. Shelves of reference books and papers that I use all the time, and old but reliable PC on the desk top, printer, fax machine and land-line phone, and a few models of ships and trains that I've built over the years right over the desk. |
Holding a set H&W Titanic GA plans. |
Shelves of reference books and papers. |
Work area layout and shelves of models. Ship models include: - Yacht America - USS Enterprise (CVN-65) - USS Saipan (LHA-2) - SS Titanic |