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Personal Info
1937-1958: Born in England at
Reading, Berkshire , lived in
Tadley .
1939-1945: My father went to France in the
British Expeditionary Force , was captured following
Dunkirk and was a
POW in
Stalag XX-A .
1941-1942: The woodland north of Tadley was cleared and
RAF Aldermaston airfield was built.
1943-1945: The
USAAF
Eighth Air Force and
Ninth Air Force took over the airfield. We lived within the perimeter of the airfield.
1945: My father was on
The March (1945) from Poland to Germany for over 3 months.
1947-1948: Worked at rural trades -
blacksmithing ,
coppicing and making
besom brooms .
1948: Under the
Tripartite System , passed the
11-plus and went to
Queen Mary's , a
grammar School in
Basingstoke
1950: Joined the
British Interplanetary Society .
1950: Ownership of the airfield at Aldermaston was transferred from the
Air Ministry to the
Ministry of Supply , and construction of
AWRE began.
1953-58: Served a formal, five-year engineering apprenticeship at
Aldermaston working under
Dr. William Penney , Dr
Henry Hulme and
John Dolphin .
1955: Learned to drive in a 1932
Ford Model Y .
1956: Bought a 1930
BSA 3 wheeler .
1950-58: Practiced
Judo at the
Budokwai with
Gunji Koizumi ,
Trevor Leggett ,
Geof Gleeson ,
Charlie Palmer and
Ken Richmond .
1958-60:
Marine Engineering Officer with
Union-Castle Line and Anglo-Ecuadorian Oil.
1960: Emigrated to the United States, living in
Hampden,
Baltimore ,
Maryland
1960: Worked in
shipyards and
machine shops in Baltimore.
1960: Bought a house in
Harundale in
Glen Burnie , Maryland.
1961: Worked for
Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad in
Ferndale, Maryland .
1961-63:
Drafted and served in regular
US Army at
Fort Jackson (South Carolina) , and
Fort Wayne (Detroit) .
1962: Trained as
computer operator on
unit record equipment , later as a
computer programmer on
IBM 602 and
IBM 1401 .
1963: Left regular US Army and moved to
Annapolis, Maryland .
1963-67:
US Army Reserves - assigned to a
MASH unit, trained in
chemical pathology and
gas chromatography
1963-67: Programming for
electromagnetic spectrum analysis in
Fortran on a
UNIVAC 1107 .
1963: Moved to
Severna Park , Maryland.
1966: Bought a 1959 BMW
Isetta 300.
1966: Became
naturalized as US citizens
1968: Programming in
Cobol and
RPG on an
IBM 360 at
ARINC .
1969: Programming automated
medical laboratory data capture in
RPG on an
IBM 360/20 and in
Fortran an
IBM 1130 .
1970: Developed
GPSS models for
Singer Corporation
1970: Converted an IBM
unit record equipment shop to an
IBM System/3 operation for Duron Paint.
1971: Programming retail transaction capture in
assembly language on a
Singer/Friden 10 .
1973-77: Programming
phototypesetting applications on
PDP-10 and
PDP-20 .
1975: Got my
private pilots license , flew
AA-1 Yankees and
Piper Cherokees
1976: Started
restoration on Series 1
Jaguar E-Type .
1978-79: For an automobile distributor, developed a
computer network linking
Datapoint 2200 's and
Texas Instruments 771's to an
IBM mainframe via a
Tandem .
1980-81: As a
computer scientist at
CSC , worked on
Air Traffic Control and
telemetry data monitoring for the first flight of the
Space Shuttle Columbia (the
STS-1 mission).
1981: Had
TIA - lost pilots license.
1982: Worked at
General Instrument with
Sid Meier and
Bill Stealey .
1983-2000: Consultant on varied projects including:
Quality Assurance ,
Management Information Systems ,
Material resource planning ,
Shop Floor Data Collection ,
Word processing ,
Telemetry Data Processing ,
Membership Management ,
Point of sale ,
Electronic funds transfer .
1989: Had second TIA (
Amaurosis fugax )- lost vision for a few hours. Had a
Carotid endarterectomy .
1990: Started restoration of
SS John W. Brown , a
WWII
Liberty ship .
1994: Started working for
Steve Bisciotti at
Allegis Group was there until I retired.
1995: Worked in
Omaha, Nebraska for a year. Worked at
Freedom Park , restored
WWII and
Korean War vintage
Jeeps and
Dodge Weapons Carriers . Worked on
USS Hazard and
USS Marlin
2000: Third TIA affected vision -
Scotoma - retired.
2006: Chest pains - Underwent
CABG procedure at
Union Memorial Hospital .
2007: Diagnosed with severe
sleep apnea - treated with a
CPAP machine .
2007: My 1999
Ford Windstar with 88k miles was inspected as part of the subframe corrosion recall - it was found to be beyond repair and was confiscated and crushed after Ford paid me half of the cost of replacing it.
2013: Was given a 1990
Mazda B2600i 4x4 that had not run for over seven years. Rebuilt brakes. Now a daily driver.
Automobiles
Railroads
Rural England
Ships
Liberty ship ,
SS John W. Brown ,
SS Henry Bacon ,
Project Liberty Ship ,
John W. Brown ,
MV Bloemfontein Castle ,
MS Dunnottar Castle ,
MV Stirling Castle ,
USS Hazard (AM-240) ,
USS Marlin (SST-2) ,
United States Maritime Commission
World War II
RAF Aldermaston ,
Prisoner of war ,
Prisoner-of-war camp ,
List of POW camps in Canada ,
List of POW camps in Britain ,
List of POW camps in Germany ,
Marlag und Milag Nord ,
List of POW camps in Italy ,
List of POW camps in Japan ,
List of Japanese Hellships ,
List of POW camps in the United States
Nuclear technology
My Sandbox
See also