Graduate of the US Air Force Academy and the US Air Force Test Pilot School. Associate Fellow within the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and Member of the Society of Flight Test Engineers. Logged time at the controls of over 80 different types of aircraft. USAF project test pilot for the F-16 Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System. Publications include "Introduction to Fly-by-Wire Flight Control Systems: The professional pilot’s guide to understanding modern aircraft controls", "Flight Test Techniques for Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Radar", and "Accelerated Development of Flight Tested Sensors and Systems" (AIAA # 2009-1744).