Lieutenant Colonel, USAF; BAE from Georgia Institute of Technology; Master of Science in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma; Master of Science in Computer Science from the John Hopkins University; Ph.D. from the Texas A&M University; Air War College, 1990; at the time of his selection assigned at Offutt AFB, Nebraska with the Air Force Global Weather Central; semi finalist in WOSE II (Weather Officer in Space Experiment); did not reach the final selection.