So David. Tell me about yourself.

I grew up in Tulsa OK, the oldest of 4 children.

I went to Oklahoma State University. I feel I was very successful in college.

Out of college, I worked on the retina scanner project for EyeDentify at Sunset Laboratory. I designed part of electronics and I was responsible for the software in the retina scanner.

When all the pieces finally come together, and I power up the prototype for the first time, I enjoy the feeling of accomplishment.

I remember feeling a little upset when my only working prototype was shipped off to somewhere in England.

But now I think it's pretty cool that something that I worked on, something with my fingerprints all over it, is in the James Bond movie ``GoldenEye''.

I did some research for Lucent at the Oklahoma Imaging Laboratory. Dr. Acton, the lab director, talked me into giving tours of the lab.

I think the best part of the tour was when I talked about the project I was working on. I'd turn on the infrared camera, then I'd babble on about the infrared camera, circuit boards, image enhancement, failure analysis, but no one listed -- they were all looking at the screen next to me with the infrared camera on top.

The infrared image of a human face looks very different from visible light. But when the face on the screen moves when you move, and stays still when you stay still, you pretty quickly figure out -- hey, that's me. And there was always someone in every group that would push to the front and make funny faces for the camera.

We didn't really have time to go into all the details on all the projects going on in the lab. But that's OK, because they realized the important thing:

With the right equipment, and with the right sort of computer enhancement, we can make visible what can't be seen with human eyes. And that can tell you interesting and useful things.

More recently I worked on several products at MotorGuide Marine.

I worked with a mechanical engineer to design the 7420 sonar display. We improved on previous displays -- we reducing the parts cost, we made it easier to assemble (reducing labor costs), and we gave the buttons better ``feel''. I've been told MotorGuide sold several thousand of them last year.

Just like in those submarine movies, sonar displays out a ``PING!'', and listen for echoes. Except that it's ultrasonic, so you can't actually hear it. So the sonar display listens for the return signals and makes a picture with the faint echoes from the air bubbles you're churning up on top, the loud echo from the lake floor at the bottom of the screen, and on a good day lots of fish in-between.

Again, making visible what can't be seen by human eyes.

Another interesting project I worked on I call the ``donut board''. We had a prototype motor with a puck on the bottom. The puck listened for echoes and sent the echoes up one set of wires and out to a sonar display. Unfortunately those wires picked up a lot of cross talk from another set of wires taking speed control pulses from a speed controller at the top of the trolling motor to the motor at the bottom. I took all the electronics from the top of the trolling motor and packed them in a small space around the moving parts at the bottom of the trolling motor. I call it the ``donut card'' because it has a hole in the middle to let the shaft go out to the propeller.

We had been talking for months about creating a new division of Brunswick called Chartus. In the corporate restructuring, there wasn't a place for me.

So now I'm looking for a position in electrical engineering / embedded system design.