Read Me First

My goal is to share experiences that have provided me with success. Every topic/article has been published. I began publishing in 1965. A statistics professor at Hofstra University told me that he graded papers based upon their ability to gain editorial interest.  He graded my statics term report "D". I was never angry but I got even. I submitted my paper to the IEEE. It was featured in their journal. When I presented the statistics Professor a copy of the Journal, he corrected my term grade from a "C" to "A". This began my career of trying to publish everything I wrote. Most times I write my thoughts and put the result into storage. Periodically I reread and edit. It takes four or five iterations to fully vet my thoughts.

Over time I have had published more than six hundred articles. This site is organized to showcase a portion off my written experiences. The evolution of my skill set began when Kollsman Instrument Corporation paid me to learn the US Navy Program Management Tool, PERT. I applied the tool to manage the Kollsman Celestial Navigation Systems being developed for the Navy and Air Force. Planning tools development expanded into the feedback systems that updated the plan. I evaluated and created systems to monitor
manufacturing in order to optimize the production process.

I became involved with the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, first as Chairman of NYC Chapter 34, then as Chairman of the Planning and Control Division of their Computer and Automated Systems Association (CASA). In 1986 I was elected a Fellow of the Society. I was befriended by Bill Johnson, the SME President. With his sponsorship I lectured concerning Manufacturing Systems in England. The Institution of Production Engineers awarded me a Fellowship in 1984. Bill had me explain my ideas for structuring inventory to Executives of the Motion Picture Industry. My ideas garnered me an Oscar. Most studios use my significant numbering system for structured inventory management.

My activities tangent, in depth, into numbering systems and automated product identification when Waldes Kohinoor hired me to implement a company-wide integrated computer system. I wrote more than forty articles concerning the integration of part numbers into classification and coding schema. Long before Bar Codes were a fad, I published an encyclopedia of automated code formats in "Computers and People" magazine. Many of my "think piece" articles are included in the SME text I prepared and edited "Application of Bar Codes in Industry". Similarly, Computer Automated Manufacturing International, Incorporated (CAMI, Inc) retained me to conduct their automated planning systems Conference. Six of my articles are part of the reference text, I prepared to commemorate the occasion.

A natural extension of my skill set evolved.. During a review of the Manufacturing procedures used at Comorant Engineering I realized that technologies that could ease their production processes were being ignored. I developed, in a manner natural to my thought processes, systems to transfer competitive technology and new ways to use existing technology. My ideas caused the USAF, Navy and Army to hire me to locate technical solutions for problems their contractors thought to be without solution. Thank God, I have yet to fail when I seek new or reuseable technologies. In twenty years my assignment sponsors have ranged from Standard Oil, IBM and Grumman to startup businesses in biotech and omputer based automation. During my thirty years evaluating technology I have served 150
companies.

I conceived the "Segment Indexed Integrated Databases" system while evaluating the USAF Materials Laboratory Computer Automated Manufacturing program. I had an epiphany. Our government had/has adopted a philosophy of "because their contractors are big, they must be smart." Billions are invested to create technologies that are warehoused and forgotten. My SIID located and cataloged these warehoused solutions that
cross referenced availability to need. I could not only solve the problem but most times the result cost 60-70% less then the big contractor bid.

Accident or "luck" produced a tangent skill. As I searched for technology I periodically came upon secrets i.e., proprietary information that developers and owners failed to secure. I found that I could navigate from the Internet to government networks or corporate computers. I became intrigued by the concepts of hacking, telephone phreaking and ham radio. My research about the person who hacks was an awakening. Law enforcement were/are off base in their security efforts. I was non-threatening and acted, or tried to act as a conscience. I was accepted into several inner sanctum. My thoughts
on the organization/structure of hacking has had 3,000+ hits in the past year. My article "Patriotic Terrorism" was published by the British Publication "Defence". It has been listed as a reference on six or seven RF oriented web sites. Last year it had 5,000+ hits.

I have made friends in Canada, Aruba, England, Germany, Italy, Romania, Poland, Israel, Syria, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Many items that are secret in the US are freely shared off shore. I have been attacked by individuals of foreign countries when I tripped over their attempts to steal American technology. I have created home-made weapon systems to protect my self. I am slowly adding them to the site.

The skill set I call Security rounds out the current site. I created my first security system, "Assured Private Entry", for Citibank, NA. My logic was published in a two part article in "Security" magazine in 1965. In 1985 when virus was in vogue I became a security expert. My son was Vice President of Application Configured Computers, Inc, a company created to market security. . He worked in Columbus OH where our staff developed the V-PHAGE integrated security system for personal and midrange computers. We also constructed custom Personal Computers for a period of time. In that period, I conducted the security seminar at the National Computer Conference at the Javits Center in NEw York City for three years. ACC, Inc. was awarded a Phase 1 SBIR from the US Army SDI program in Huntsville AL. The study produced a security system that functioned beyond human control. The final report is included on the site.

The site allows for my ego. A section highlights my resume, experiences, client list and opinions. A genealogy of my father's family and my mother's family was added when I realized the my children did not know their forebears.

I suggest you read the ENDNOTE. This page shows how to access four books, I have written in draft form, that are now available on the site. They require a great deal of editing.  They were current years ago. I chose not to publish them as they were too explicit and detailed about topics that could be misused. It also defines the information that will be added during this year. I have been slow to add two "how-to" books, several technology transfer descriptions, about twenty articles written by others about my Consulting skills and additional articles I have located. My problem is simple. I do not type except to "hunt and peck". I have not been able to locate a typist to transfer my hard copies to disk.

I am also considering an additional topic area. I call it "Unique Ideas." It will comprise ideas for programs that transfer technology, identify methods to obtain both competitive intelligence (corporate) and secrets/proprietary information (Government), and create the means to produce off-the-shelf weapon systems using technologies and equipments detailed on the Internet, in FTP repositories, and on accessible corporate computers. Many times I use information created by DARPA and government contractors that have been warehoused because other solutions had a higher expectancy of success.

Enjoy yourself while reading my thoughts.