I started DLA Systems in 1981. I have always been involved in interesting and challenging facets of the PC World. When I started PC’s were called Micro Computers, and being called a hacker was a compliment.

I designed built and sold hard disk systems for PC’s before hard disk support was available from Operating systems vendors. This often required modifying the Operating systems or developing drivers and.or firmware. When Hard disk support was added I provided support for substantially larger volumes than were supported by PC OS’s - again writing systems software as needed to overcome operating systems limitations. As the limits increased so did the additional capabilities I was able to provide.

I developed CAD software prior to the release of MS DOS and have sold CAD systems since 1981. One of the early CAD systems I developed ran on a 6502 with 4K of memory and performed real-time 3D geometric transforms using an oscilloscope and chart recorder as output.

I was economically networking PC’s prior to the formation of Novell. My current networking experience includes intra-networking and wireless LANS and long distance wireless bridges. On the software side I have developed software using most network protocols, and implemented several. Including an embedded orb-less implementation of CORBA in 20K of memory.

I am a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with decades of experience. I also have decades of Unix experience, and have been involved with Linux prior to version 2.0. DLA Systems projects have ranged from hardware and software design for micro controllers through business accounting and database systems.