Role and Company
Program Manager, Climate Reference Network, NOAA and NASA
Expertise
40 years experience in science & energy
Location
Waco, TX
About Mike
I was a USAF AFSC 203/202 in Pakistan, A-Stan, V-nam, Alaska, Germany, USA, coupla other places.
The most fun, demanding work I ever had. Then I went back to school, got a PhD, did professor stuff a while, found that boring as hell, went to NOAA to do remote sensing, then NASA to do the same with Landsat and then all the Shuttle flts, and then back to NOAA to deploy the US Climate Reference Network across the USA & other places. I finished all that now, and I would like to help fellow veterans in particular. Nobody knows a veteran more than a veteran, and nobody can make a veteran respect himself or herself more than another veteran. I was to make some young folks into tough young bastards who will sail through academic programs to get their degree(s) to go out and raise hell and take charge in the tidy little civilian community that needs some realistic damn energy and how-to's. Veterans, in particular those with "field" experience can definitely provide energy, experience, and organizational discipline to cause success to happen in their endeavors. Standard feather merchants need more damn hard-nosed clever, smart, honed veterans in their midst. I am proud to be a a fifth-generation veteran, and I would be proud to pass my knowledge, experience in government and university programs, and I have obvious semi-subliminal positive attitudes on overcoming the barriers that face the returning generation(s) of those who are hoping to convert themselves into LEADERS in their forthcoming civil careers. You can do it...it takes some discipline (Duh...) and some repointing.