About Me

I’ve been fixing things since I was very young and have always enjoyed understanding how thinks worked

If it can be fixed I’ll find a way to do it

My background:

Born 1952

Nearly electrocuted 1954 (stuck a knife in a 220 outlet while sitting on a concrete floor)

Won WBZ Know Science contest 1960

Attended vocational school 1966-1970

Designed First tube Amp in 1969 (Guitar Amp 100Watt 6L6 Parallel Push Pull)

Started repairing TV;s on the road at Ed;s TV Woonsocket RI 1969

Attended Lowell Technological Institute (LTI) 1970-1974

Graduated Cum Laude (The first and only vocational tech graduate to graduate from LTI)

Worked 1973-1975 at Signal Science where he invented a remote channel changer for television based on the clapper ( first Patent)

1975 1977 Worked at Idealab designing and building Cryogenic Inteferometers mechanical design and servo design

1977 to 2007 Worked at Wang Labs going from engineering associate to Vice President of R&D

Awarded 4 US Patents  while at Wang for Data processing equipment

2007 Left Wang (Now Getronics) to pursue what he really enjoys and had been doing part time throughout his career

2008 – 2012  Worked at Scully Signal managing a great engineering team and having a  great time designing safety equipment for the petroleum storage and transportation industry.

Took on a challenge in Mid 2012 by accepting a position as Interim VP engineering at IsiQiri in Hagenberg Austria . This invoilved the design of a large format touch screen device.

Holder of 7 US patents in areas of Computer Hardware, Computer Software, Mechanical Engineering and consumer electronics

Member Eta Kappa Nu and US Mensa