Increa Technology ^TM,SM

On this web page, 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 let me know. I graduated from high school with intentions of becoming a medical doctor, but during my second year of college, the computer revolution caught my attention, and ever since, my life has been 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.

Eventually leaving active duty military into the Reserves, I settled onto a rural homestead in Michigan and secured work as a Sr. System Engineer in the field of industrial automation. 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 and honesty in some business relationships. I was pleased when a job opened up as a Flight Test Engineer at Edwards AFB on the Airborne Laser program. 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 entire Air Force Flight Test Center enterprise at Edwards Air Force Base in this new technology area.

In 2006, I gained an increasing desire to pay back some of the great opportunities I've had, and be directly relevant helping others make life choices.  This led to a move back to Michigan into a full-time faculty position while simultaneously serving in a Residential Life position on campus, working nearly 17 hours a day, 7 days a week, with college students.  Uh... more web pages updates when I have the time!

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 both the Volmer VJ-22 and Sugar Springs Airstrip Yahoo groups. My vocational interests have taken a turn toward Program Management and Business Development, brokering funding sources and technology advances. My technical efforts these days are developing new flight test instrumentation and software that will significantly cut costs of aircraft modification, while changing flight test execution paradigms. If you have need of these services or are interested in relevent products, I would welcome a chance to bid on the work. 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."

PHD, ATP ME, PRIV SEL, COMM GLIDER, ARO KA9SNF, GROL #PG-GB-000395