Employed as a Mechanical/Structural Designer by McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company (missiles & satellites - with Secret Clearance) from 1978 through 1992.
Employed by Siemens (formerly UGS & EDS), and traveled throughtout the USA mentoring Designers/Engineers in the use of Computer Aided Design/Manufacturing & Product Data Management software applications (this is the software I used as a Designer while at McDonnell Douglas) from 1993 through September 2012.
Currently employed at Boeing Integrated Defense & Space Systems,�in Mechanical/Structual Technical Design CAD processes support for all aerospace projects.
I have supported projects at the following corporations:
3M
Allison Transmission
Applied Materials
Artic Cat
B-Line
BE Aerospace
Bell Helicopter
Boeing
Caterpillar
Chrysler
Cooper Energy Services
DeCrane Aviation
DePuy
Donaldson
Dresser Rand
Eclipse Aviation
FMC
General Electric Gas Turbines
General Motors Electromotive
Goodrich
Hasbro Toys
Hamilton Sundstrand
Heatcraft
IntegrityEDM
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Komatsu
Lam Research
LTV
McDonnell Douglas
Monaco Coach
Motor Coach Inc.
New Venture Gear
Northrop Grumman
Panduit
Rolls Royce
Schonbek Lighting
Seagate
Siemens
SpaceX
Tetrs-Rex
Timex
Other Comments:
I listed the corporations I supported in hopes that someone I served with may be employed there. Also, I am a "Road Warrior" and spend most of my weekday nights in a hotel room somewhere in the USA. It would be easier to contact me via my email or cell phone.
Also,the photos shown in the 'Photo Album' at the lower-left of this website shows me at the controls of a B17-G Flying Fortress. It is my favorite Heavy Bomber of WWII. The aircarft is known as "The Aluminum Overcast" and is owned by the Experimental Aircraft & Aviation Association. I had the opportunity to actually fly this B17-G Flying Fortress for 15 minutes on April 22, 1995 (I got it on video too).
Operation New Life (Vietnam)
From Month/Year
April / 1975
To Month/Year
July / 1975
Description Operation New Life (23 April – 1 November 1975) was the care and processing on Guam of Vietnamese refugees evacuated from Saigon by Operation Frequent Wind in the closing days of the Vietnam War. More than 111,000 of the evacuated 130,000 Vietnamese refugees were transported to Guam where they were housed in tent cities for a few weeks while being processed for resettlement. The great majority of the refugees were resettled in the United States. A few thousand were resettled in other countries or chose to return to Vietnam on the vessel Tuong Tin.
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
April / 1975
To Month/Year
July / 1975
Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020
Personal Memories
Memories Steamed from San Diego on March 30, 1975. Took part in the evacuation of South Vietnam, April/May 1975. On August 26, 1975, I left the Tuscaloosa via climbing down a cargo-net into a Mike 6 Landing Craft; dropped onto a sand beach near Pohang South Korea amidst a "War Game" beach landing. All I had was the money in my wallet, my Seabag, a suitcase, and a cassette case. I opened my orders to read that I had to be at a "Naval" office at the Yong Son Army Base south of the DMZ north of Seoul. I had no idea where the hell I was; so I took a long 5 hour bus ride down to Pusan (I was familiar with the "Bar" area). I spent the night and the next day took a train up to Seoul. Somebody on Tuscaloosa did a job on me. I was due for separation from Tuscaloosa on September 11th in Subic Bay...for some mysterious reason I was separated out three weeks early, anchored off a rural coastal area of South Korea in the middle of a large war game & amphibious assault beach landing. I did not have the choice to remain on board to wait until Tuscaloosa reached port in japan or the Philippines. Something fishy went down that day.