Biography: Life
is an adventure and it's been an interesting ride so far. I was born in
October, 1951, near the Polo Grounds in New York, NY, not long after
Bobby Thomson hit his famous home run. I was a year old when we moved
to Brooklyn, NY where I attended Lafayette Public School (P.S. 25, now
called the Eubie Blake School) from 1956 to 1962, Berriman Junior High
School (J.H.S. 64) from 1962 to 1964 and Brooklyn Technical High School
from 1964 to 1968. After winning a New York State Regents Scholarship I
attended The City College of New York, where I received a B.S. degree
in Mathematics in 1972. There, I was a three-year varsity lacrosse
player. During summers from 1971 through 1976 and during my senior year
in college, I worked at the law offices of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby &
MacRae (now Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP) in New York, NY, where I became a
paralegal assistant specializing in litigation. I attended graduate
school at Miami University, where I was a graduate assistant in the
math department and assistant coach of the lacrosse team. I received a
M.S. degree in Mathematics in 1974. I was enrolled in Boston
University's doctoral program in the mathematics department from 1974
to 1977 where I studied Algebraic Coding Theory under the now-deceased
Edwin Weiss and held a Senior Teaching Fellowship in the department as
well as being a mathematics tutor in the university's Resident Tutor
Program.
Between then and now: In
1976, I was hired as a Mathematician at the U.S. Naval Underwater
Systems Center (now called the Naval Undersea Warfare Center) in
Newport, RI. In 1979, I joined the Trident Command and Control System
Maintenance Activity in Newport, RI as a Computer Specialist, where I
was the on-site representative for the data processing subsystem on the
first Trident submarines. From 1980-1983, I was an Operations Research
Analyst at the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command at Ft.
Monmouth, NJ. Then I moved to work at the U. S. General Services
Administration in Washington, DC, as a Computer Specialist in the
Office of Advanced Planning, where I engaged in Federal-wide technology
assessment in automatic data processing and telecommunications. In
1984, I went to the National Science Foundation and held a variety of
management positions in the Division of Information Systems before
going to the Division of Mathematical Sciences, where I served as a
Program Director until 2008. During this time, I graduated from the
Executive Potential Program for Mid-Level Employees, where I had
developmental assignments at the Internal Revenue Service as a manager
in computer capacity management and at the Forest Service, USDA, as a
telecommunications planner. I also graduated from the Federal Executive
Institute and am a Past President of the Federal Executive Institute
Alumni Association, a Past President of the National Science Foundation
Employees Association, and a member of the Local Federal Coordinating
Committee of the Combined Federal Campaign for the National Capital
Area. In my spare time, you will most likely find me playing
sports or studying foreign languages.