I am a 53-year old Electrical Engineer/ Programmer living in Fairfax, Virginia. I have a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, a Masters Degree in Systems Engineering, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. I have an ITIL V3 certification.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. -Eric Hoffer

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. -Eric Hoffer

More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person's level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails. -Dean Becker

repose is not the end of education; its end is a noble unrest, an ever renewed awaking.. a ceaseless questioning of the past for the interpretation of the future, an urging on of the motions of life, which had better far be accelerated into fever, than retarded into lethargy. -George MacDonald

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing -George MacDonald

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
-Booker T. Washington

My hobbies include music, ballroom dancing, running, chess and finding creative solutions to technical problems.

The video above shows me in a not-so recent short performance.

A writer may try his best to draw a map of how things are, that will be equally valid for all; but all he can really do is to paint a picture of what he sees from the unique and transient viewpoint which is his alone... It is for the reader to say how much my view contributes to his own. - Geoffrey Vickers, Freedom in a Rocking Boat, p.14

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
-Ayn Rand

The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration. It was only by being provisional and open to change, even radical change, that scientific knowledge began to evolve. And ironically, its vulnerability to change is the source of its strength. -Heinz R. Pagel, Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Time

Given the power and ubiquity of the human tendencies toward inertia, dualism, linearity, and reduction, it can be no surprise that the scientific establishment rewards those who color within the lines. It can also be no shock to realize that all useful advance must come from deviation outside of those lines. Thinking new thoughts is, after all, impossible for most, difficult for all, frightening for many – and irresistible for some few poor souls. This is dangerous in science and can be deadly in medicine. -William J.M. Hrushesky, Triumph of the Trivial

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. - Voltaire