Ronald Alexander:  

Life Beaumont Elementary 1955-1963 Benson Boys Poly High 1963/4 U. S. Grant High 1964-1967 PCC 1967-1974 PSU Mathematics 1969-1972 Emanual Hospital 1973-1974 Navy Submarines 1974-1977 UofP Engr; OGC Fellow 1978-1980 Steely-Eyed Missile Man 1980-1990 USFDA/FEMA Radiation Man 1991-2004 Retired due to Navy injuries aggravated by my work. Lumbar fusion on 11/30/2005 improved lower extremities. Now I ride my bike when it's not raining, go to Church on Sundays, and folk dance with the Israelis on Sunday evenings. Workplace I've been a Senior Member of the Nuclear and Plasma Physics Society of IEEE; I now belong to Standards Activities(IEEE-SA.) I belong to Institute for Defense & Govt Advancement. I represented Army Defense Electronics Lab Harry Diamond (now simply Army Research Labs: ARL) in Chartering the International Test and Evaluation Association, now AFSEA. I was appointed a Member of the Public Health Service's Engineer Profession Advisory Committee 1995-1998. Personally I hold a Ship Radar Radio Operator's Endorsement, a Private Pilot License, and EIT registration in WA - and I was certified on sloops by the Navy Sailing Association. I was accepted in Mensa in 1978. I spent a lifetime developing comprehensive skills by developing embedded control software in the most technically challenging environments in the history of the world. Since I always worked with senior folks developing guidance and telemetry solutions, many of them have left the industry. After delivering the Trojan Simulator Nuclear Fuel Logistics model to Bonneville Power Administration in 1979, I was an Optical Communications Fellow at Oregon Graduate Center into 1980. After having developed skills in PL1 and BASIC in the Navy, my flexibility was tested in returning to FORTRAN and to pioneer applications in C and ADA. I left government research in 1984 as Microprocessor Tactical Gamma Hardness Principal Investigator at America's lead lab for tactical radiation effects evaluation, Harry Diamond Labs (HDL), now Army Reseach Labs. At HDL(Army Rese...Expand for more