Consultant
Philippines
Consultant
Philippines
Life experience includes: intelligence and security work (21 years military experience); engineering (mechanical and aeronautical; self-taught in chemical and nuclear); translations; literature and patent searches.
Current "push" is small-scale bio-based processing; other interests are transportation systems for areas with limited infrastructure and rapid interisland transport systems.
Ducted propulsors (ducted fans, shrouded propellers, waterjets, pumpjets), tailless aircraft, ground-effect and air-cushion vehicles, free-piston engines, cable-supported transportation systems, tensile structures, thin-shell construction. Translation work primarily technical and military, French and German into English, English into French.
(Publishing industry)
November 1984 — Present (24 years 9 months)
Autodidactics (from the Greek for "self-taught") is my catch-all umbrella for all the things that I do.
(Research industry)
1988 — 1998 (10 years)
Taught counterintelligence and security subjects to Army reserve component soldiers, Marine Corps reservists and officers from "other agencies." Supported the US Army Intelligence Center when activated during Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
(Research industry)
1981 — 1988 (7 years)
(Public Company; MXWL; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
June 1981 — September 1984 (3 years 4 months)
Managed security aspects of Defense and Energy Department programs and contracts at Maxwell.
(Research industry)
1979 — 1980 (1 year)
(Research industry)
1974 — 1976 (2 years)
none , Mechanical Engineering , 1984 — 1990
1969 — 1972
1967 — 1969
aeronautics (lighter-than-air flight, tailless aircraft, ground effect machines, flying boats and amphibians), propulsion (especially ducted fans), ropeways and cableways, gunsmithing, sailing, reading (sci-fi and mysteries, mainly)
Rotary Club of Metro Iligan (President 2004-2005, District Secretary 2005-2006, Assistant Governor 2006-2007),
Philippine Exporters' Federation,
Foreigners in the Philippines Voluntary Organization (FIPVO),
Association of Balloon and Airship Constructors (http://abac.archivale.com),
Mass Flow (ducted propulsors)
Experimental Aircraft Association, Chapter 14 (Outstanding Individual Achievement, 1984),
Rotary Club of Metro Iligan (Most Outstanding Rotarian, 2000-2001)