Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, United States
Writer, naval historian, social entrepreneur, carpenter, and grandfather. Based in the Endless Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania, I’m happily semi-retired. I'm a gun owner, I support the 2nd Amendment, and I believe in common sense gun control. Three ongoing passions animate me today: restoration of the 122-acre family property on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, capturing the history of six World War I U-boats, U51-56, their captains, crews, builders and protagonists, and Folded Homes which provides environmentally appropriate and cost-effective solutions to human shelter needs. Non-fiction publication of Der Kapitän: U-Boat Ace Hans Rose (Amberley Press, 8/2018) Short-story fiction writing includes a story arc tracing events in the life of a native-American Indian alter-ego, Che ‘ok Ten. Thus far three episodes from his life are complete: The Spider Woman, The Bear Goddess, and The Passage of Dreams.
Folded Homes provide environmentally appropriate and cost-effective solutions to human shelter needs. While offering shelters for personal use, the company is particularly focused on addressing humanitarian shelter needs. We believe that a truly effective humanitarian shelter solution is one that quickly delivers large numbers of easy-to-assemble, language-neutral, low-cost, four-season shelters even to locations where transportation infrastructure may have broken down.
Responsible for all Business Activities: Productization and manufacturing of Pod products, Supply-chain development and management, Marketing and sales, Team development
Responsible for all Engineering activities: Seven senior engineers hired in my first three months with KE, Comprehensive Information Technology proposal for the entire company, Led website redesign, Consulting project manager for multi-million dollar 80211a WLAN chip-set project with a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer. On schedule delivery of first phase. Developed the KE “Dejima” brand show-casing KE’s client services and business model. During tenure, based primarily in Tokyo
(Reporting to VP-Marketing) Management of corporate marketing infrastructure: Development and maintenance of a unified marketing data warehouse for all product, market, price-list and training materials. Management of the multi-thousand page marketing internal web-site; the primary channel for arming Wind River’s world-wide direct sales organization Responsible for identification, codification, and training against marketing ‘best practices’. Responsible for market activity analysis
(Reporting to VP-Engineering) Program management responsibility for two vertical market extensions to Wind River’s horizontal RTOS product family Assumed responsibility for lagging automotive sector product, completing development within 1 week of revised best-case delivery schedule. Coordinated product development with German partner. Launched partner-based development of VxWorks/FT, a High Availability / Fault Tolerant version of the VxWorks RTOS. Coordinated both the business and technical aspects of the project with participating HW and SW partners. Coordinated customer-funded RTOS-certification effort “on a shoe-string” budget.
(Reporting to VP-Engineering) Manage 3 teams (QEtest, Corporate Quality Service, Development Infrastructure): Achieved ISO-9001 certification in 17 months. “Wind River Systems far exceeded the requirements of the standard and has the finest system and environment for design that I have encountered in my experience as an auditor.” - KEMA auditor. Concurrently managed a 7.5 person-year project to “equip Wind River with customer support & defect and quality tracking systems adequate for our next decade needs with phase one delivery in fall of 1997 for less than $1.5 million.” Enhanced project delivered for $1.61 million, within one week of original delivery target, with 2 out of 3 users reporting high satisfaction. Re-engineered reactive 4-person Wind River quality assurance organization into pro-active 3-group quality engineering organization. Co-inventor of patented on-line test laboratory technology
President and acting manager for 15-person sweat-equity team delivering a fully graphical, multi-user interactive chat/gaming experience on the web.