About Me
Hello, thank you for checking out my website. I live in Clover, South Carolina in the country. I have two cats named Pino and Love along with wild rabbits, deer, coyotes, foxes, snakes, frogs, lizards, mice and every type of insect both great and small.
Check out my children's book called The Lion and the Egg at Amazon and Books-a-Million, and dozens of other sites. Also, look for my puzzle book series: Search for E. S. (Equidistant Sequences) Volumes 1-7 and Search for E. T. (Equilateral Triangle) Volumes 1-7 also on Amazon and other online bookstores.
Education:
Graduated from Plano High School, Plano, TX in 1971
A A degree from University of Maryland (History and Music) in 1979
BS degree from The University of the State of New York, Albany, NY (Creative Writing and Communications) in 1986
MDiv degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY (Theology and Pastoral Management) in 1989
Master of Science Courses from Capella University, Minneapolis, MN (Information Technology) in 2003.
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Professional:
Founder and President of the World Chess Academy since 2004
Vice President of Differentiated Services Platform Engineering (IT / QA) of Bank of America from 1997-2004
Senior Operating Systems Support Engineer at Microsoft from 1991-1996
Senior Satellite Communications Operator, Bendix Aerospace Engineering / Allied Signals from 1982-1985
Signal Collection Specialist, National Security Agency, Shefford, England, 1977-1981, Ft. Meade, Maryland, 1982
Businesses Owned:
Thomasson Unlimited, Direct Distributor, Home cleaning products and cosmetics, 1978-1981
Thomasson Computer Services, President, Word Processing and Book Type-Setting, 1983-1985
DART Enterprises, National Mail-order Sewing Patterns, advertised in Bride's Magazine, 1983-1985
World Chess Academy, President, 501(c)3 non-profit public charity corporation, since 2004
Ploutos, LLC, Co-Ownership, Futures and Stock Market Trading Company, 2005-2009
Thomasson Shopping Mall, Online mega mall with over 1000 stores, 2007-2010
Nature's Calm Music, Online site for selling my original compositions for guitar and flute, 2007-2018
Military:
Air Force Security Service, SGT, Morse Code Operator and Direction Finding Operator in Misawa, Japan from 1971-1975
Army Reserves, SP4, Radio Repairer (337th Airborne MI Battalion) and Programmer/Systems Analyst (108th Computer Training Division), Charlotte, NC from 1990-1993
Honors and Awards:
Phi Kappa Phi (Life Member) - National Honor Society
Alpha Sigma Lambda - Evening College Honor Society
Phi Alpha Theta - History Honor Society
Two National Defense Ribbons for Vietnam Era (US Air Force) and Desert Storm (US Army)
Honorable Discharge from US Air Force, 1977 and US Army, 1993.
Four Army Achievement Medals and One Army Commendation Medal, 1991-1993
Outstanding Young Man of America, 1984
First Place in Golf Tournaments - Bank of America / IBM Open, 2000, 2001, and 2003
Three Gold Medals (Singles and Doubles - Table Tennis, Billiards - 8 Ball) Senior Games, Charlotte, NC, 2017
Three Medals in Table Tennis (Gold - Doubles, Silver - Mixed-Doubles, and Bronze - Singles) Senior Games, Charlotte, 2018
PGA Hope Golf Graduate from Charlotte, NC, 2023
Licenses:
Extra Class Amateur Radio License - Callsign AI4DT
Licensed Minister, Lyndon Baptist Church, Louisville, KY
Teacher:
Guitar and Music Theory / Composition
Computers, Networking, and Software Applications
Chess, Golf, Tennis, and Table-Tennis
Financial Markets, Trading Stocks, Options, and Currency
Tutor Biblical Greek
Patents:
Patent: #7029364 - Springer Geometry "Geometric craft and Educational kit" - polygons based on Knight moves on the chessboard. Such polygons make amazing 2-d, 3-d, and multi-dimensional shapes and ornamental and architectural structures.
Writing:
Celtic Enigma, Knights Templars codes and ciphers, National Novel Writing Month, November, 2006
Springer Geometry, 17 page article published in Symmetry: Culture and Science, The Journal of the Symmetrion, Volume 13, Numbers 3-4, 2002, Budapest, Hungary, pages 401-417
Poetry and Lyrics
The Lion and the Egg - Illustrated children's book about a lion raising a duckling, 3-17-2012 (1st Edition),
9-24-2012 (2nd Edition), and Self Published 5-20-2021 (3rd Edition)
El Leon Y El Huevo - Illustrated children's book in Spanish, 9-24-2012
Search for E. T. (Equilateral Triangles) 7-Volume Puzzle Series, December 2015
Search for E. S. (Equidistant Sequences) 7-Volume Puzzle Series, May 2018
Music:
Greek Hymns of the New Testament - wrote 20 Greek Hymns published as a hymnal in 1986
Nature's Calm - Reflective Moments, music CD containing 18 original compositions for flute and guitar, 2007
Hobbies:
Writing puzzle books, music, chess, golf, tennis, table-tennis, billiards, guitar, paleography, paleontology, cryptography, theology, amateur radio, toy collecting, and recreational mathematics
Check out my children's book called The Lion and the Egg at Amazon and Books-a-Million, and dozens of other sites. Also, look for my puzzle book series: Search for E. S. (Equidistant Sequences) Volumes 1-7 and Search for E. T. (Equilateral Triangle) Volumes 1-7 also on Amazon and other online bookstores.
Education:
Graduated from Plano High School, Plano, TX in 1971
A A degree from University of Maryland (History and Music) in 1979
BS degree from The University of the State of New York, Albany, NY (Creative Writing and Communications) in 1986
MDiv degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY (Theology and Pastoral Management) in 1989
Master of Science Courses from Capella University, Minneapolis, MN (Information Technology) in 2003.
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Professional:
Founder and President of the World Chess Academy since 2004
Vice President of Differentiated Services Platform Engineering (IT / QA) of Bank of America from 1997-2004
Senior Operating Systems Support Engineer at Microsoft from 1991-1996
Senior Satellite Communications Operator, Bendix Aerospace Engineering / Allied Signals from 1982-1985
Signal Collection Specialist, National Security Agency, Shefford, England, 1977-1981, Ft. Meade, Maryland, 1982
Businesses Owned:
Thomasson Unlimited, Direct Distributor, Home cleaning products and cosmetics, 1978-1981
Thomasson Computer Services, President, Word Processing and Book Type-Setting, 1983-1985
DART Enterprises, National Mail-order Sewing Patterns, advertised in Bride's Magazine, 1983-1985
World Chess Academy, President, 501(c)3 non-profit public charity corporation, since 2004
Ploutos, LLC, Co-Ownership, Futures and Stock Market Trading Company, 2005-2009
Thomasson Shopping Mall, Online mega mall with over 1000 stores, 2007-2010
Nature's Calm Music, Online site for selling my original compositions for guitar and flute, 2007-2018
Military:
Air Force Security Service, SGT, Morse Code Operator and Direction Finding Operator in Misawa, Japan from 1971-1975
Army Reserves, SP4, Radio Repairer (337th Airborne MI Battalion) and Programmer/Systems Analyst (108th Computer Training Division), Charlotte, NC from 1990-1993
Honors and Awards:
Phi Kappa Phi (Life Member) - National Honor Society
Alpha Sigma Lambda - Evening College Honor Society
Phi Alpha Theta - History Honor Society
Two National Defense Ribbons for Vietnam Era (US Air Force) and Desert Storm (US Army)
Honorable Discharge from US Air Force, 1977 and US Army, 1993.
Four Army Achievement Medals and One Army Commendation Medal, 1991-1993
Outstanding Young Man of America, 1984
First Place in Golf Tournaments - Bank of America / IBM Open, 2000, 2001, and 2003
Three Gold Medals (Singles and Doubles - Table Tennis, Billiards - 8 Ball) Senior Games, Charlotte, NC, 2017
Three Medals in Table Tennis (Gold - Doubles, Silver - Mixed-Doubles, and Bronze - Singles) Senior Games, Charlotte, 2018
PGA Hope Golf Graduate from Charlotte, NC, 2023
Licenses:
Extra Class Amateur Radio License - Callsign AI4DT
Licensed Minister, Lyndon Baptist Church, Louisville, KY
Teacher:
Guitar and Music Theory / Composition
Computers, Networking, and Software Applications
Chess, Golf, Tennis, and Table-Tennis
Financial Markets, Trading Stocks, Options, and Currency
Tutor Biblical Greek
Patents:
Patent: #7029364 - Springer Geometry "Geometric craft and Educational kit" - polygons based on Knight moves on the chessboard. Such polygons make amazing 2-d, 3-d, and multi-dimensional shapes and ornamental and architectural structures.
Writing:
Celtic Enigma, Knights Templars codes and ciphers, National Novel Writing Month, November, 2006
Springer Geometry, 17 page article published in Symmetry: Culture and Science, The Journal of the Symmetrion, Volume 13, Numbers 3-4, 2002, Budapest, Hungary, pages 401-417
Poetry and Lyrics
The Lion and the Egg - Illustrated children's book about a lion raising a duckling, 3-17-2012 (1st Edition),
9-24-2012 (2nd Edition), and Self Published 5-20-2021 (3rd Edition)
El Leon Y El Huevo - Illustrated children's book in Spanish, 9-24-2012
Search for E. T. (Equilateral Triangles) 7-Volume Puzzle Series, December 2015
Search for E. S. (Equidistant Sequences) 7-Volume Puzzle Series, May 2018
Music:
Greek Hymns of the New Testament - wrote 20 Greek Hymns published as a hymnal in 1986
Nature's Calm - Reflective Moments, music CD containing 18 original compositions for flute and guitar, 2007
Hobbies:
Writing puzzle books, music, chess, golf, tennis, table-tennis, billiards, guitar, paleography, paleontology, cryptography, theology, amateur radio, toy collecting, and recreational mathematics