Registered Professional Engineer, C. Rowe Fellow, NASA Certificate of Merit, World Automation Congress Technical Fellow, three-time Judge R&D Magazine's Top 100 Developments, Tau Beta Pi, ISA,  and IEEE.

Former Chief Engineer at Textron Systems, Principal Engineer at Eaton Corporation, Chief Scientist at the University of Texas and IEEE Division X Professional Activities Chairman.

Technical architect of commercial and research projects with: Boeing, Guidant, Lockheed Martin, Medtronics, Merck, Michelin,  NASA, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Sciences, Raytheon, Whirlpool, US Air Force, Army, Navy and Department of Energy.

BSEE Rice University, MSME & PhD UT Austin, 35+ peer-reviewed publications, five copyrighted software systems.

Rich with two-arm robot circa 1990
Rich circa 1993


Software, Robotics and Computer Controlled Machines

Manufacturing Software Robot & Machine Kinematics Motion Control
Process Control Machine Control Software Medical Robotics
Instrumentation Factory Automation Electro-Mechanical Engineering
Robotics Software Automatic Doors Automatic Guided Vehicle
Programmable Logic Controller Machine Safety Automatic Test Equipment
Machine Control Ladder Logic Software Software Source Code Review

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