Colonel, USAF, Ret.; Master of Science in meteorology from the Naval Post Graduate School; Ph.D. in meteorology; at the time of his selection assigned at Scott AFB, Illinois with the Air Weather Service; semi finalist in WOSE I (Weather Officer in Space Experiment); reached not the final selection; from 1998 until 2000 employed by Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System - AWIPS; since 2000 Director Office of Science and Technology, National Weather Service - NWS.