Founder, Capital Area Visual Basic User Group (CAVBUG), 1999.

Co-founder, Capital Area .NET User Group (CAPAREA.NET), Washington, D.C. Metro premier user group for .NET developers.

Instructor for Learning Tree, International, for XML and Microsoft SQL Server

I have been working in the software development business for over 15 years. Besides my early days building image-based, pattern recognition systems for supercomputers, I have developed enterprise and commercial applications in Visual Basic (2.0 and beyond), Visual C++, C, C#, Java, Pascal (Turbo Pascal to Delphi). I have developed applications using the following databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive Server.

I retired from the U.S. Navy Reserve, recently. I served as a Naval Flight Officer. Here is the aircraft I flew in my early days.