Bachelor of science from the USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, 1971; master of science in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the Purdue University, February 1972; masters in business administration from UCLA, September 1978; Colonel, USAF (Ret. in August 1997); selected in 1979 for MSE group 1; later Shuttle Flight Director at Satellite Control Facility (later renamed in Onizuka AFB); currently work as a Program Director for Lockheed Martin Mission Systems; lives in in San Jose, California.