I look forward to talking with you soon. Having worked his way through school as technician in three medical laboratories his interest in computing grew and in his senior undergraduate year he was asked to create a physically accurate model of spacecraft reentry . The simulation that resulted brought honorable mention in the national Bendix design competition. This software is up to date and online . He also studied tensile architectures with Prof. Edward Kuznetsov, the noted tensile structures engineer.
Biological systems make extensive use of such structures.
Graduating in with a BS in Engineering in 1981, he then received his first master's degree developing a special purpose language for structural analysis with Dr. Art Hale, a distinguished expert in control theory, finite element analysis and engineering mechanics. Finishing this in he traveled to Utah to earned a second master's degree in Computer Science, specializing in Computer Graphics and working at the famed University of Utah Graphics Lab. While in Salt Lake City he performed animation of sound driven computer graphic elements in a telecollaboration with Pat Kane and James Bozek of the University of Illinois. Graduating from the University of Utah in he went to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. During this time he worked on the Time Warp large scale simulation project.