B.S. University of Georgia, Athens. Entered computer industry with Raytheon at HQ in Boston as a Systems Engineer. A year later joined Digital Equipment Corporation for 15 years working at Boston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, St. Louis and Arizona in positions of Software Consultant, Systems Analyst, and Systems Manager/Programmer, and Field Support Engineer for corporate and international clients in areas of multi-vendor networks, security, performance, hardware, firmware, OpenVMS and UNIX OS internals, IS consulting and project management. Left DEC for self-employment and personal interests in Christchurch, New Zealand for 2 years until returning to Arizona and ASU. Currently enrolled in graduate studies at ASU.