About Me
I met my wife Christa when we were both at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. We have been married for 29 years. She has worked as a Microbiologist in both industry and in research. She recently attained a Master of Arts in Teaching from Trinity University, and is currently working as a teacher. Christa and our 2 kids, Stephen, 22 and Sarah, 19 are my motivation and support for the pursuit of my PhD.
My background and early career experience is as a Physicist and an Electrical Engineer. I received the Bachelor of Science in Physics from Angelo State University, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from UTEP in El Paso, Texas, and the Master of Science from Cal State Long Beach in Long Beach, California. I spent 20 years in the US Air Force, specializing in component qualifications for the Titan IV launch vehicle, as a tech lead for ground-based atomic clock replacements in the GPS program office, and as a Test Engineer for optical and infrared sensors. I also worked as an Avionics Engineer for the C-5 Aircraft program. I was first introduced to the Cyber community in 1997, working on RF device programs, operating as a Crew Chief on the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team, and as an RF engineer at the Air Force Imformation Warfare Center.
I continued my career as a Defense Contractor, supporting Air Force and other agencies, working on the Cobra Dane phased array radar, circuit redesigns for Air Force aircraft electronic warfare pods. My favorite program at that time was working as a technical lead for the glass cockpit upgrade for the United States Space Shuttle.
I worked as a contractor in Cyber systems starting in 2003, working with Cyber operators to integrate Information Warfare software into the US Air and Space Operations Center. I continued this work for Joint military customers, managing the first Machine Learning ("Ontology") software elements into military operations. From this point forward, and for the first time, most of my engineering work was exclusively software-focused development, and included an evolution of Software Oriented Architectures (SOA), evolving more recently into container-based microservices development and system deliveries for military customers.
I continue to focus on Machine Learning and Artificial Intellence (ML/AI) projects, both as an independent consultant, and employed as a contractor with Radiance Technologies Inc. I have delivered projects that support Natural Language Processing, and Ontology/Reasoning support to electronic failure analysis efforts. I'm currently interested in applying Machine Learning techniques to produce and use a distributed/parallel fuzzer to support software vulnerability assessments.