Forty years in diverse aspects of design, marketing, installation, training, and service of building automation systems and in the design of products based on embedded microprocessors.
Wrote programs for HVAC industry's first energy management system.
Planned and developed hardware and software for buiding automation systems including user interfaces, user-programmed sequences, energy management, life safety, access control, modem communications, and BACnet protocol.
Designed and improved microprocessor programs for control of induction motors, emergency lighting units, telephones, tachometers, and pet trainers.
Prepared operator's manuals.
Performed field installation and service.
Prepared and presented custom training programs in computer control applications and programming.
Published twice and earned five patents in automation technology.
1983 to present: Self-employed as consultant in design and training for building automation systems and microprocessor-based control products.
1980 to 1982: Brown-Boveri Control Systems, Inc. Regional automation systems engineer responsible for application development and system installations.
1965 to 1979: Robertshaw Controls Company. Various positions ranging from Field Applications Engineer responsible for automation system development to Assistant Manager, Engineering and Development with departmental responsibility for twelve Computer Systems Engineers.
1963 to 1965: Union Carbide International. Industrial engineer assigned to German subsidiary engaged in manufacture of fractional horsepower DC motors.
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and Certificate of Advanced Engineering Study, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1962.
Additional study in computers and control theory at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany, 1963.
Fluent in German; familiar with Spanish and French; some study in Japanese and Portuguese.
Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society - Life Member
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers - Member
Richmond Joint Engineers Council - Chairman 1998-1999