In a nutshell

If you don't know about my various projects (and even if you do), then you probably won't care who I am and can stop reading right here.  But if you still have a perverse desire to know, I'll tell you.  Simply put, I am a techie.  For a short, sweet time I was a research Physicist of sorts.  But most of my professional career has been spent in industry, designing electrical hardware and embedded firmware -- a lot of it for airborne use.  Lately, I've discovered the wonders of open-source software, and have been participating in its creation and distribution as a hobby.

In more detail

• I was born.  (In Columbus, Ohio, in 1957).
• I went to school.  (B.S., Mathematics, from the Ohio State University, 1978.  M.S., Physics, from the University of Texas at Dallas, 1983.  Ph.D., Physics, also from the University of Texas at Dallas, 1989.)
• I received honors.  (Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi.)
• I taught.  (Fundamentals of Physics, Introductory Classical Mechanics, Introduction to Assembly Language.)
• I did research in Physics, and wrote.  (Resulting in various professional publications.)
• I worked.  (Actuarial Assistant at J. C. Penney Life Insurance -- yuk!  What could I have been thinking?  Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at the University of Texas at Dallas.  Various positions at Heads Up Technologies, ranging from "Engineer" through "Vice President of Engineering" and "Chief Technical Officer".  But this really just translates to "did a lot of tech stuff".)
• I received patents.  (Two, actually.)
• I had hobbies.  (I have contributed a number of etexts to Project Gutenberg, and have released a variety of free-software projects.)