I am a Professor of Computer Science at Austin Community College, and a retired USAF officer. I have a BS, MS and almost PhD in Aerospace engineering from Va Tech, and a MS in Computer Science from Texas State. During my career in the Air Force, I spent a lot of time working in high performance computing, doing computational fluid dynamics research using top of the line systems including a Cray-1, Illiac, and eventually a Cray-2. I taught for a number of years at the Air Force Institute of Technology in Dayton, Ohio. I ended up my career as acting Director of the Phillips Laboratory Supercomputer Center - a Cray-2 site in Albuquerque. I was also techical lead in building the Air Force's Maui High Performance Computer Center in Maui, Hawaii.

I was introduced to Python as part of a graduate class in object-oriented design I took at Texas State. I enjoyed the language so much that I rewrote a wiki web system I had originally developed in Perl. That work formed the basis for a Python software engineering tool I wrote for my thesis project that was used successfully by several graduate classes during their software development projects. I currently use the system as part of my classroom management activities at ACC.