Provide weekly reading assistance to four 1st graders selected by their teachers as needing extra help at Deerfield Elementary School in Edgewood Maryland

2012-present organize and run SCRATCH programming class and after school science club for 3rd, 4th & 5th graders at Edgewood Boys & Girls Club2011-2012 Subject matter expert support for LET'S GO Boys and Girls initiatives - Lego Robotics and S2E2 (Simple Science & Everyday Engineering) - at Harford County Boys and Girls Clubs(www.letsgoboysandgirls.com)

Experimenting with new plantings within past 3 years: 3 varieties of cherry, 4 varieties of apple (cedar apple rust resistant), 3 varieties of grape, 2 varieties of blueberry, 3 varieties of raspberry, 4 varieties of blackberry, 2 varieties of fig, hazelnuts (filberts), 2 varieties of pawpaw, jostaberry, hardy kiwi (2012 planting), 4 varieties of honeyberry (2012 planting)Added plum and Japanese Pear in 2013 and asian parsimmon in 2015

Volunteer "Big Brother" mentor

CTO/Chief Engineer/Director of Technology (1996 - 2009) for Civilian Agencies (and predecessor organizations), a 4000-person information technology & network planning, development, and integration operation with federal and commercial customers. Responsibilities included management of R&D program, technology/program assessments, engineering process improvement, and technology governance functions. At various time performed technology assessment and strategic technology planning across Sector’s… Show more CTO/Chief Engineer/Director of Technology (1996 - 2009) for Civilian Agencies (and predecessor organizations), a 4000-person information technology & network planning, development, and integration operation with federal and commercial customers. Responsibilities included management of R&D program, technology/program assessments, engineering process improvement, and technology governance functions. At various time performed technology assessment and strategic technology planning across Sector’s federal, defense, intelligence, and commercial businesses. Principal contributor to impact study of e-commerce technologies and processes on organization’s role as an IT solutions provider, and the growing linkages among commercial, state, federal, and defense marketplaces as e-commerce evolved into e-government. Show less

Sector Technical Fellow (1994 - 2009), one of 40 so designated in a 15,000 person organization (also one of a smaller number designated as “distinguished technical fellows”), performing original research in the areas of large Information System Architecture, COTS software integration methods, and organizational knowledge management. Provided consulting assistance to TRW’s corporate-level IT organization; developed the approach to define the corporate IT architecture framework necessary to… Show more Sector Technical Fellow (1994 - 2009), one of 40 so designated in a 15,000 person organization (also one of a smaller number designated as “distinguished technical fellows”), performing original research in the areas of large Information System Architecture, COTS software integration methods, and organizational knowledge management. Provided consulting assistance to TRW’s corporate-level IT organization; developed the approach to define the corporate IT architecture framework necessary to enable sequencing and dependency analysis of then emerging e-business initiatives. Show less

Project Manager: Assembled and managed 100 person, multi-company team that performed engineering, design, and implementation of large distributed information system infrastructure for IRS Modernization, including telecommunications, distributed data management/ interchange, computer/human interface services, operating system services, distributed processing control, system and security management, transaction processing, and hardware.

Engineering and management of large-scale information systems architecture development for IRS Systems Modernization. Assembled and led a staff of 40 analysts and senior engineers from four companies.

Engineering and technical oversight for development of criminal justice demonstration system. System included high transaction rate relational database inquiry processing, automated fingerprint matching, high availability fault-tolerant computing, and functionally distributed server-processing architecture

OSIS Baseline Upgrade (OBU) system, a multiple user, interactive, secure, data fusion system having 1M lines of custom software and distributed computer architecture. Responsibilities included content/cost/schedule decisions, system architecture, enhancement engineering, correlator tracker implementation, system performance, and end to end processing integrity. Primary interface between Navy user groups and enhancement effort following system deployment

Defined strategy for automating data assessment for a series of worldwide sensor data collection sites. Developed architecture and implementation plan for 4 phase, 7 year effort. Performed project management and system engineering. Designed and developed computer to computer communications link protocol and software for nationally important data flow, and oversaw multi company implementation and test program.

Conceived and designed (data and signal) processing segments for a variety of real time space, air and ground-based sensor systems, including radar, radar imaging, electro optical, and SIGINT, communications, and laser sensors. Performed architecture definition, performance evaluation, equipment selection, and functional design. Designed and developed architectures for Trident Fire Control, AN/UYK 30 and other military computers. Involved with initial industry application of microprocessors… Show more Conceived and designed (data and signal) processing segments for a variety of real time space, air and ground-based sensor systems, including radar, radar imaging, electro optical, and SIGINT, communications, and laser sensors. Performed architecture definition, performance evaluation, equipment selection, and functional design. Designed and developed architectures for Trident Fire Control, AN/UYK 30 and other military computers. Involved with initial industry application of microprocessors to satellite control systems, and integrated circuit development. Show less