Born - Prairie View, Arkansas
Grade School - St. Boniface in Fort Smith, Arkansas
High School - St. Anne's Academy in Fort Smith, Arkansas
Degree in Physics from the University of Dallas, Summa Cum Laude
National Science Foundation Fellowship in Physics to the University of Wisconsin at Madison
MBA from the University of Southern Maine
Seven years in the U.S. Navy (qualified in Submarines, as Chief Engineer, served as Officer of the Deck on the USS Simon Bolivar - SSBN 641 - a ballistic missilie submarine that was, at the time, the most powerful warship in recorded history,and was Head of the Reactor Plant Technology department for two years at the Navy's nuclear power school in Mare Island, California)
Seven years in commercial nuclear power (three years with Tennessee Valley Authority at Brown's Ferry Nuclear Power Plant and four years with Combustion Engineering at Maine Yankee Atomic Power Plant and Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit Two)
Thirty one years in the shipbuilding industry - all as a Project Manager in the Bath, Maine office of Alion Science & Technology, formerly John J. McMullen & Associates.
Organizations: USS Maine Base (for submarine veterans), ASNE (American Society of Naval Engineers), AARP, and MENSA.
