These pages capture my life of yesteryear, including a bio of the early years below:

Date of Birth:  Approximately 3:30 PM, November 24th, 1959

Location of Birth:  Union Hospital, Terre Haute, IN (The building was tore down in 2008 or 2009)

My Entry in to This World:  My mother started in to labor and a neighbor, Ann Jerry, drove her to the hospital at around 2:30 PM.  After birth, mom and I stayed in the hospital for five days, (who, how things have changed).  My father was driving a truck for Motor Freight in Terre Haute and was near Chicago when he got the work through some type of teletype machine at a truck stop. 

First Home:  18xx South 3rd Street, Terre Haute, IN 47802.  This house was demolished in the many years ago and is an empty lot today. 

Second Home:  2205 South Center Street, Terre Haute, IN  47802.  I lived here from five years old to about ten years old.

Third House:  2128 South Center St, Terre Haute, IN  47802.  I lived here from about 10 years old through my college years at Purdue.  I lived at home during the summers.

Fairbanks Elementary School:  Kindergarten through 6th grade.  The building I attended was demolished in the 1990's.  The structure was a very old brick building with open stairwells, (a very dangerous fire hazard), wooden floors and very tall ceilings.  The playground was all asphalt.  The only grass was the front lawn which we tore up on one damp day playing football.  After the school administration discovered the actors in this act of vandalism, and our parents were contacted, my father opted to replant the grass.  So, we had our first lesson in lawn planting. 

Vorhees Pool-There was a city pool that we walked to to swim.  The entry fee for children was twenty five cents.  The first photo shows the shower room and the outline of the pool, (small concrete line in foreground).  The pool is filled in with dirt and grass now.  The third photo shows the old locker rooms and lifeguard office. 

Trips in Pyrofax Truck-On Dad's day off from the Fire Department, he drove a gas delivery truck to area towns.  One of our regular restaurant stops was Toor's Restaurant on US40 at US231.  At this time, I-70 was not complete from Terre Haute to Indianapolis, but still under construction.  We stopped at this restaurant many times.  One time Dad had me order black coffee and he ordered hot chocolate, the waitress loved it.  The restaurant recently burned down when these photos were taken in May 2010. 

Junior High School:  Sarah Scott Junior High School:  7th through 9th grade.  The original buildings for this campus were also demolished and replaced on the same site. 

Terre Haute South Vigo High School:  10th through 12th grade.  The original structure still exists today. 

Purdue University:  Click here for photos of the Purdue years. 

Boeing, Wichita, KS:  On My Own:  Wow, I made it!  I graduated from Purdue and took my first job with the Boeing Company in Wichita, KS, in January 1984 as a junior electrical engineer, assigned to a design group. My first project was a flight test design project.  This was a box that monitored the traffic on the serial data buses on the B52 aircraft, selectively recorded data on to a hard drive.  This was the first hard disk drive certified for flight.  It was also a big breakthrough in that, intelligent, on board data processing occurred real time.  Prior to this, all data on the data bus was captured and recored on data tapes, requiring the flight test crew to change these large tape every hour and hours of work on the ground after the flight to process the data, (filtering out the undesired data). 

Boeing Edwards Air Force Base:  In the summer of 1984, the project manager on the flight test project, Dave Eslinger, asked me to loan in to his group and follow the completed design to Edwards Air Force Base.  I was so excited to get to go to California.  I have a lot of family members that live in LA and this would give me a work assignment in LA that would allow me to spend time with my West Coast family.  Little did I know that I would end up here and never return to the Midwest. 

Boeing Commercial-Seattle:   I worked from March 1991 to March 1993 on the 777 Program.  I have a design that is on every 777.  It is a controller/monitor for the flight attendants.  The panel is a touch screen, controller with only soft keys and a 10 inch color LCD, that was state of the art in 1991. 

Mentor Graphics:  I started working for Mentor Graphics as a contract consultant in August 1993 and became an employee of Mentor on March 17, 1997 and still here today.  For more information on my work, click here.