I started out my career as a school teacher, teaching middle school and high school math. After a few years, I wanted to do something different, so I joined the Army as a Mathematician/Statistician, but most of the work that I did was writing programs in FORTRAN and Basic. I became an officer and went on to learn COBOL and some database theory. I ended up doing more management than computer work, but I always kept my hand in helping others with their programming. I left active duty, and went...
I started out my career as a school teacher, teaching middle school and high school math. After a few years, I wanted to do something different, so I joined the Army as a Mathematician/Statistician, but most of the work that I did was writing programs in FORTRAN and Basic. I became an officer and went on to learn COBOL and some database theory. I ended up doing more management than computer work, but I always kept my hand in helping others with their programming. I left active duty, and went to work for the Army as a civilian Statistician. Again, I wrote programs and performed maintenance on programs that allowed others to do the statistical work. I wrote code in FORTRAN, COBOL, Basic, Pascal, Delphi (which is Borland's version of Pascal), Assembler, C, and SAS. I moved from that into an actual Computer Programmer position where I developed Microsoft Access databases, and wrote programs using C, C++, and Visual Basic for Applications. I moved from there to a job as an Operations Research Analyst, and did statistics, programming, developed computer models and simulations. I wrote code in C, C++, JavaScript, Java, and SAS. After 38 years of federal service, I will retire at the end of May 2015.
I am married and have two sons in the computer field and a daughter that works with animals. I have one grandson who will be 4 in August. I initially came to San Antonio with the Army, and loved the city and decided that this is where I would go when I left the military. I have been in San Antonio since 1988 and love it here. My sons and daughter all live in San Antonio, so I do not have to go far to see them. I have tutored some of my friends' children who were having problem in math. When working one-on-one, it feels good when you finally see the light in their eyes when they finally understand a concept. I have patience to work with students to go over a topic multiple ways until I hit on a way that they understand. I have always enjoyed passing on the knowledge that I have and helping others learn. And I would like to
