Increa Technology ^TM,SM

Here at Increa.com, we're celebrating 19 years on the Internet!  Increa began to publish the "Minisport Laptop Hacker" via UUCP in October of 1991. November of 1997, a year after Yahoo came into existence, Increa Technology appeared as a web page hosted on qsl.net.  Google didn't exist until a year later.  In 2002, increa.com became a stand-alone domain.

On these web pages, you'll find information hovering in the void between professional activities, entrepreneurial feasibility, and renaissance curiosity. If you use material from pages I maintain, please link back to the source page, and let me know. Early intentions out of high school were to become a medical doctor, but during my second year of college, I started building computers, and my life became a combination of interests. I obtained a Ph.D. degree doing atomic emission analysis of atmospheric pressure spark discharges, and then joined the military as an Air Force pilot.

When I left active duty military, I settled onto a rural homestead in Michigan and secured work as a Sr. System Engineer in the field of industrial automation, while continuing to fly KC-135s with the Air Force Reserves. I thoroughly enjoyed the intellectual freedom of being a telecommuter, but the dot.com implosion in 2001 sent me out on my own to breath life back into the sole proprietorship company I had started back in 1988. I ended up doing contract work under conditions that many dream of, but was disappointed at the lack of integrity in some business relationships.

When a job opened up as a Flight Test Engineer at Edwards AFB on the Airborne Laser program, I moved to southern California. Later, I took a job in the Electronic Warfare directorate, where I found more expansive work doing Directed Energy Test & Evaluation and other Technical Assistance representing the Air Force Flight Test Center enterprise at Edwards Air Force Base in this new technology area.  At the USAF Test Pilot School, I continued technical efforts toward developing new flight test instrumentation and software to significantly cut costs of aircraft modification, while changing flight test execution paradigms.

Fall of 2007, I accepted a full-time faculty position back in Michigan, while simultaneously serving a 1/3-time appointment in a Residential Life position on campus.  During semester breaks, I continued Air Force Reserve work at the USAF Test Pilot School and the Electronic Warfare Directorate. I miss being out and about in the wind and weather in an operational environment, and the long office hours staring at a computer bear down on me...

Increa posts may appear in news groups for Hewlett-Packard HP48, Palm Pilot, Radio Equipment Swaps, or Linux Newsgroups.  Every once-in-a-while, I separate the time to publish articles about my activities, including finances,taxes, and energy needs of a small homestead. I moderate the Volmer VJ-22 and Sugar Springs Airstrip Yahoo groups. Mork's Market always lists a few things for sale. If you're interested in making computers work for you instead of working for them, visit my Increa Computer Consulting page. If I ever run out of things to do, I turn to the catalogs of Tom Lindsay and buy a new book.

"When you don't know where else to go, go back to the beginning."

This page is maintained by Brian Mork, owner & operator of Increa^TM // It was last modified March 2010. Suggestions for changes and comments are always welcome. The easiest way is to contact me through the Internet.

				PHD, Airline Transport Pilot Multi-Engine (ATP ME), Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) Single-Engine-Land and Glider, Amateur Radio Operator KA9SNF, General Radiotelephon Operator License (GROL) #PG-GB-000395