I'm currently managing real estate for our family-owned business. It's an easy part-time job, but somebody's got to do it.When I worked in more technical fields, the majority of my experience was in developing software applications and components for engineering and scientific use. Those systems were - and still are - used for automating agricultural field equipment (planters & combines), data collection & analysis in the laboratory and in the field, and automating telephone call handling. Some of my last technical work was with machine vision systems. I developed software for three laboratory systems that analyzed crop material and sorted it based on the material's response as captured by hyper-spectral imaging. In addition, I developed both the acquisition software and the analysis technique for counting plants in the field using NDVI, captured/computed from multi-sensor (NIR/RGB) cameras.Other projects I worked on involved automation built around Parker-Hannifin's ACR and Beckhoff's TwinCAT platforms. I developed motion control software for both lab and field systems using Parker's ACR900 and I developed an automated field system using Beckhoff's TwinCAT. I also developed embedded automation systems using PIC and TI microprocessors.In the 1990s, my partner Brian Keller and I established Group W's world-wide reputation for expertise with the Natural MicroSystems telephony hardware and NMS's various SDKs. Our ActiveX controls for call handling and MVIP switching based on NMS's "Natural Access" SDK were published in 1996-97. Those controls were licensed for distribution by TALX Corporation (now Equifax), by NT&T (Nippon Telephone & Telegraph), and by Natural MicroSystems Corp itself (now Dialogic). As of 2015 or so, our users were telling me that our ActiveX controls are still in use and still reliably handling millions of calls per year.