This is my personal web page. While this web page is public, I mainly use it to share pictures with my family and to keep web links for all my professional and hobby interests. The picture is a Cessna T-37 "Tweet" at Laughlin Air Force Base's undergraduate pilot training school, Aug 1991.

I'm married to Kristen Redd who I met in a space systems design course at Utah State University. She is a mechanical engineer and took a perpetual leave-of-absence to raise our children.

I am one of the principal writers for a science fiction role-playing game called Universe . It is being published through a company called Tower Ravens.

I currently work for the Space Dynamics Laboratory where I am a computer scientist for spacecraft instrument systems.

In my copious amounts of free time, I volunteer for the Civil Air Patrol. I am the squadron commander for the Cache Valley Composite Squadron and the Assistant Director of Aerospace Education for the Utah Wing.

I used to work for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where I worked on the Mars Exploration Rovers. I also worked for SEAKR Engineering where I developed firmware for solid-state data recorders that are used in aircraft and satellites. Before that I developed UNIX applications for TRW Systems & Information Technology. Right out of college I worked for Hughes Space and Communications Company as a spacecraft systems engineer, primarily with the simulation of satellite systems.

I used to be one of the three writers for the MacMadness column in ComputorEdge magazine of San Diego and Denver.

I attended college at Utah State University where I studied computer science and electrical engineering. While I was a graduate student, I worked for the Space Dynamics Laboratory as a graduate student researcher and for NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center as a research associate.

While I was a student, I participated in the Get Away Special Program and participated in the launch of the G-254 experiment on the Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-64. Before the budget cuts in 1991, I was a pilot candidate in the United States Air Force.

I graduated from Spring High School in Spring, Texas. I also attended Alief Hastings High School in Sugarland, Texas and Minico High School in Rupert, Idaho.