What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

The Journey So Far

• Walter Johnson High School
  • Debate Team

• Clarkson College NSF summer program
  • FORTRAN programming on IBM 1620 (Many check stops!)
    "The first IBM computer system which had a monthly rental price less than the machine's model number."

• Yale University B.A., Math and Physics, 1968
  • Silliman College

• NOAA Commissioned Corps "America's Seventh Service": Ensign to LT
  • 28th BOTC January-March 1969, Norfolk
  • NOAA Ship Rainier Officer of the Deck, Ship's Service Officer
    • BOMEX (Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Expedition)
    • Pacific Marine Center, Seattle
    • Dutch Harbor
    • Adak
    • Bering Sea
    • Norton Sound
    • No Place Like Nome

• MIT
  • Program Formerly Known as Course 19: S.M., Meteorology

• Hydrometeorological Prediction Center Meteorologist

• University of Maryland M.S., Computer Science

• Comsat Labs Member, Technical Staff

• IBM
  
  
  Woodstock, NY
  WDST-FM
  • Senior Associate/Staff Programmer, DPPX System Design, IBM Systems Communication Div., Kingston, NY
  • Staff Programmer, Advanced Fortran, IBM Data Systems Div., Kingston, NY
  • Staff/Advisory Programmer, VM System Performance Evaluation, Kingston Programming Laboratory, IBM Data Systems Div., Kingston, NY
    Rockville, MD
  • Advisory Marketing Support Representative, Capacity Planning Services, IBM Marketing and Services, Gaithersburg, MD
  • Advisory Systems Analyst, Advanced Automation System, IBM Federal Systems Co., Rockville, MD

  America Online Senior Systems Performance Analyst

  Some of the fine folks who made it all possible, before the bus became overloaded with bozos:
  • Joe Barrett
  • Craig Dykstra
  • Jay Elinsky
  • Mark Filteau
  • Anthony Hoffman
  • Janet Hunter
  • Ken Huntsman
  • Brian Jacoby
  • Alan Keister
  • Paul Konigsburg
  • Les Lascari
  • Jay Levitt
  • David Lippke
  • Ron Patton
  • Mike Peel
  • John Phoenix
  • Tom Reid
  • Jeff Robelen
  • Dennis Saylor
  • Jonathan Schiff
  • Dave Scibelli
  • Marc Seriff
  • Rob Skaggs
  • Ben Slade
  • Karl Smith
  • Doug Steinberg
  • Mary Tims

  You've Got Media!

  • The Hardy Boys and the Great Media Caper
  • More all singing, all dancing revue (Listen in RealAudio)
  • In your face
  • What it all means

  University of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., Lecturer

  • CMSC 106, Introduction to C Programming, Spring 2000 through Spring 2003
  • CMSC 311, Computer Organization, Fall 2003

  CapitalWeather.com, PM Update, 2005-2007

  CapitalClimate, 2008

Still to Accomplish

• Prune the bushes

Professional Memberships

• American Meteorological Society
• National Weather Association
• American Geophysical Union
• Royal Meteorological Society
• Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
• Association for Computing Machinery
• IEEE Computer Society
• Sigma Xi (Associate Member)

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Last updated 06/17/08