At TAMU-T, specific areas include the development, maintenance, and delivery of the MIS program.  Curriculum reviews are performed to better prepare our students to meet the needs of business.  On the technical side, expertise is provided concerning PC applications, networking, and peripherals.  Other responsibilities include student advising and committee service.

Sandpiper Software was a software development firm that targeted software products related to curriculum development and integration, instructional management, test item banking, data analysis, and administrative query modules.  Several of the software packages developed by Sandpiper were utilized in more than 30 states and several foreign countries.  

As a software development firm, Ed-Tech created the Arizona Instructional Management System for the Arizona Department of Education and the Data Management System for the Vocational Technical Education Consortium of States, a component of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

Provided guidance for the development of curriculum to satisfy upcoming accreditation requirements while offering most of the computer science courses.  Certified as a DACUM facilitator. 

Served as a data processing instructor, technician, and COBOL programmer.  During this timeframe, PCs established a presence to challenge the mainframe and curriculum was developed to address technology changes.

The RTS was a supervisory position established to interface and coordinate Measurex’s sales and service efforts with all levels of a client’s management to assure the successful installation and acceptance of computerized process control systems in paper mills.  Each project remained active until the hardware was calibrated and verified, software control loops were tuned to optimum process control, and training of the service personnel was completed.  On each site, a project began by advising Measurex sales personnel on presale visits and ended by signing-off training to Measurex service.

Metric Systems competed for military, government, and commercial electronic design and manufacture contracts.  Electronic design projects:

• ARTS 3:  A system that allowed two airports to independently share a single radar site (e.g. Chicago O’Hare and Midland)
• Very Large Array (VLA):  A data collection system that interfaced large dishes placed on flatbed railroad cars throughout New Mexico and Arizona to simultaneously study heavenly bodies from different angles.
• Command Destruct System for Vandenberg AFB, California:  A system to monitor a missile’s progress along a predetermined path and generate an encoded missile destruct signal if the missile veered out of a specified path.
• Missile Liftoff System for Vandenberg AFB, California:  A base-wide system that monitored a missile’s liftoff countdown to allow radar dishes (and other tracking equipment throughout the Pacific) to accurately anticipate a missile’s liftoff.
• Ground Movement Detector:  A small cylinder containing three tightly packed and potted circuit boards that was be placed in missile-like projectiles to be fired into the ground (used in Viet Nam) to monitor and radio-transmit information concerning minuet ground movements (troop activities).

Specific services included repair, maintenance, and installation services on Teletype and communications equipment throughout North Alabama.

• granted a top secret/crypto access clearance
• spent one-year in cryptographic-electronics school in San Antonio, Texas 
• performed maintenance, repair, and modifications on cryptographic systems
• served two years duty in Tokyo, Japan
• served one year at Patrick AFB, (near Cape Kennedy) Florida
• achieved an E4 rank (Sergeant) within two years
• received outstanding unit award and ribbon for joining during Viet Nam conflict
• completed enlistment (4 years) - received honorable discharge