He has served as lead technician coordinating the effects of support contract personnel on projects of major scope. He has effected the fabrication layout design of systems, subsystems, or instrumentation units defined in work assignments. My Dad began his NASA career as a co-op student in 1978, and in 1979 as an apprentice in NASA, Langley Research Center Electronics Technician Apprenticeship program. He had previously earned an Associate in Applied Science Degree in Electromechanical Technology at the National Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.

He actively participates in many programs devoted to deaf issues both on and off the Center, and do an extensive amount of volunteer work related to these programs. For three years (1993-96) he served as Co-Chairman and Chairman of the Center's Satellite Committee for people with Disabilities and was instrumental in developing its first strategic plan for hiring people with disabilities. He is presently NASA's representative to the National Training Conference on Employment of Government Employees who are deaf or hard of hearing. Because of being selected for that position, He has strived to create awareness of deaf issues and matters of equal employment at LaRC and throughout the agency. He had the opportunity to mentor both deaf and hearing summer students and hope that through that example, he can stress that hard work and a good education can make a great difference in what and how you achieve as well as how successful you will be in your endeavor.

There are four people in my family, my sister and I and my mom and dad, I asked my sister, Beth how she feels having a dad that works at NASA. Beth and I think having a father working at NASA is "cool and interesting." We can ask him a lot of questions about science since he's like a genius with it. We are very proud of him working at NASA.

Recently, while working with a team of other technologists and engineers, my Dad recognized an application for an alarm system using existing LaRC technology. The alarm system uses off the shelf sensors integrated into a transmitter to warn people who are disabled of an event through transmission of a signal to a hip mounted receiver. This system is also useful to people who work in high noise environments (Click here for diagram).