The document summarizes the career of an individual over 39 years at Honeywell, starting in 1976 working on vacuum tube autopilots and gyroscopes, then providing technical support for military aircraft internationally from 1977-1988. From 1988-1997 they taught aircraft systems courses and managed publishing systems. Their career saw early involvement in e-business initiatives from 1997-2002 and enterprise architecture roles through 2007. Most recently they have worked in high performance computing and engineering applications involving Linux clusters with thousands of processors solving product design problems.

1. The Gory Details: Thirty-Nine years: Vacuum Tubes to Super-Computers
(sorry, but it looks like a resume -- it really isn’t)
1976: Vacuum Tubes!
I came to Honeywell through its acquisition of Sperry Flight Systems in 1986. I
started with Sperry in 1976. My first assignment with Sperry was overhauling SP20
autopilots for the C130 Aircraft. Yeah, these guys ran on vacuum tubes! I also
overhauled Directional and Vertical Gyroscopes (real spinning wheels).
1977/1988: Gyros on a lot of aircraft!
Less than two-years after my start with Sperry, I accepted a role with Sperry Product
Support/Field Engineering representing the company at MCAS Cherry Point, NC. I
provided technical support on a gyro system that Honeywell supplied for the AV8
Harrier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Harrier). This was an
“eighteen-month” assignment that morphed into a nine-year residency with the
Marines who took me along on deployments to such places as the Philippines and
Mediterranean, and frequent visits to MCAS Yuma, AZ.
I also traveled a lot for Honeywell to support additional aircraft…
 Spain: EADS CASA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EADS_CASA)
 Portugal: Fiat G91 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_G.91)
 Italy: MB339 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aermacchi_MB-339)
 Sigonella, Cicili; Subic Bay, PI; NAS Norfolk; and NAS North Island: C2A COD
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_C-2_Greyhound).
 US Air Force Bases: F15 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-
15_Eagle)
1988/1997: Teaching for Honeywell
In 1988, I transferred to Honeywell Air Transport Systems as a Training Engineer on
commercial aircraft systems supplied by Honeywell. I wrote training and
maintenance manuals and taught courses including Laser Reference Inertial
Guidance, Electronic Instrument Systems, Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance
System, Boeing 777 Ground Based Software Tool (Sun UNIX system ;-)
I also managed our Interleaf Publishing System, which was my introduction to UNIX.
1997/1999: E-Business!
This was an outgrowth of our online initiatives in Commercial Customer Support.
We became Honeywell’s first Web Application team and were absorbed by IT. Our
designers created Honeywell’s first website, internet DMZ, the venerable Aerospace
Tech Pubs website which still hosts Service Bulletins, Component Maintenance

2. Manuals, Flight Management System Navigation Database, and online Parts
Catalogs.
1993/1998: Aerospace Industries Association Chairman
As a parallel assignment, I became Honeywell’s representative to the Aerospace
Industries Association and Air Traffic Association Technical Information
Communication Committee, eventually rising to Chairman. Our committees
established the aviation industry's first standards for digital exchange of
maintenance and support documents. I also represented Honeywell with the
Aerospace Vehicle Systems Institute (AVSI) task force: a common collaboration
environment for the aerospace industry.
1999 - 2002 E-Business Technology Enterprise Architect
With the rapid expansion of Internet technology, our local Aerospace team joined
with Honeywell corporate teams to achieve a number of significant milestones
including:
 Honeywell’s first Lightweight Directory Authorization Protocol (LDAP)
implementation
 Digital Certificate security for the Honeywell Aerospace Portal
 Honeywell corporate eMeetings and ~$10M in travel-avoidance savings
 Standardized web tools and technologies

3. 2002 to 2007 Lead Enterprise Architect ITG/GTS
In 2002 I joined Corporate IT! In the five years that followed, I managed
Infrastructure standards committees, led Infrastructure Roadmaps, and helped with
technology selection (you can blame me for MOVEit, CyberVault, and the switch to
SSH instead of telnet ;-))
2007/2014: Super-Computers! (Engineering Applications and HPC)
Probably the most interesting assignment of all has been participation with High
Performance Computing. The term “cluster” has a significantly different
interpretation in HPC. An HPC cluster has thousands of processors, hundreds of
nodes and will solve in just a few hours or days product design problems which
would have taken years without HPC. Honeywell Aerospace has multiple clusters
which - when added together - have a combined 8,000 cores and turn out “FLOP”
**floating point operations** in the quintillion range.
A parallel outcome from HPC work has been the standardization, build, delivery, and
support of a growing number of Linux Engineering Workstations. For the past seven
or eight years, I have been the principal Linux System Administrator, responsible for
nearly 100 systems across Honeywell in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. I’ve also
become the Linux SME in HITS/ITES Operations, helping with upgrade planning,
outage mitigation, currency, and operational issues on Red Hat Linux servers
Education
A very important benefit in working for Honeywell is education assistance.
Honeywell’s help has allowed, me to add to my initial AS in Aviation Electronics - in
1976 - three additional degrees covering Electronics Systems Analysis, a BS, and an
MBA in Technology Management.