Well, I guess it's best to start at the beginning. I was born in Birmingham, Alabama. on January 14, 1955. My family packed and moved from the "big city" to the sprawling metropolis known as Holly Pond, Alabama located about 12 miles from Cullman, Alabama. Longing for the "big city" life, my family moved to Cullman. After several years, we pulled the "Green Acres" routine again and moved back to Holly Pond.

After attending Cullman High School for 3 years, I graduated from Holly Pond High School (on time even) in 1973. After about 3 months, Uncle Sam called and I joined the U.S. Navy in September, 1973. So as not to make read it twice, you can refer to my the Navy page to see my adventures in Uncle Sam's Travel Club. During this time, I married my high school sweetheart and we had our first son. Upon exiting the service of my country, I enjoyed a short time of rest and recuperation at home. After completing a short term of employment at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant and I began working for the Tennessee Valley Authority at the Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant. While working for TVA, my wife and I (actually, she did all the work) had our second son.

After a couple of years at BNP, I took myself and my family to Arizona where I went to work for the Arizona Public Service at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. Needless to say, going from the green rolling foothills of the Appalachian Mountains to the flat Arizona desert was quite a culture shock for everyone. However, after several years in AZ, everyone enjoyed the desert and its beauties. While living the entire time in the Phoenix metropolitan area, the cities that we actually lived in were Phoenix, Glendale and Peoria, AZ.

During our time in AZ, my wife obtained her Mechanical Engineering Degree from Arizona State University. She got a job locally for a few months. Then one morning as she was getting dressed, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center called and offered her a job. We felt this would be a good time for us to move back home. One problem, only one of us was offered a job. So in next 18 months, I worked a variety of jobs in the nuclear power industry. Refer to my Nuclear page for more details.

Finally, in 1988, NASA finally saw fit to offer me a job (off to Huntsville I go) in their Structures and Dynamics Laboratory, Fluid Dynamics Division working at a site called the "wind tunnel". My assignment involved working on testing Space Shuttle Main Engine components with emphasis on the turbines of the fuel and oxidizer pump turbines. My primary responsibility involved testing activities at the Air Flow Turbine Test Facility

Earlier this year, I transferred to the Configuration Management group responsible for MSFC in-house projects.

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