Roy Klein:  

From 1973 to 1986, I was active duty in the U.S. Air Force. My duty assignments were in Taipei, Taiwan; Okinawa, Japan; Osan, Korea; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In 1986, I was hired out of the Air Force by a computer company. However, I stayed in the Air Force Reserves from 1986 until 1997. My entire military career was spent in the Intelligence and Information Technology fields. From 1986 to 1993, my civilian employer was Martin Marietta Data Systems as an Intelligence and Information Technology specialist. A fancy term meaning I wrote software applications to store and analyze intelligence and other information. From 1993 to 2009 (16 years), my civilian employer was Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Of course, it was in the Intelligence and Information Technology field. My last job title was Principal Knowledge Architect--a fancy name for someone who designs and builds databases and software applications for data management systems (DMS), information management systems (IMS), and knowledge management systems (KMS). I also wrote the systems' data management policies and standards regarding decision-making criteria and policies. These governed how data were extracted and processed into useful information. Information is only useful when it provides clients with available, on-time knowledge for enhanced decision-making purposes. From 1995 to 2007 (12 years), I also taught undergraduate and graduate level Computer Science courses and undergraduate Math. In the summer 2007, my health took a turn for the worse and forced me to quit teaching. So I de...Expand for more