Earned BS and MS degrees in engineering from Oklahoma State University. Received Ph.D. in engineering from The Catholic University of America. Worked as engineer in aerospace industry and for Bell Labs. Taught aerospace engineering at US Naval Academy. Co-founded, and was CEO of, two software companies—CADCOM, Inc., and Intercad Corporation. Was Director of Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland. Was General Partner of Gabriel Venture Partners and Director of Athlone Global Security, both venture capital firms. Currently, full-time author. PRAGUE: MY LONG JOURNEY HOME, his award-winning memoir, published in 2011, is a story of his life as a hidden child in WW-II and his traumatic reconnection with his native country after the Velvet Revolution. NAME-DROPPINGS: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE FAMOUS AND NEAR FAMOUS was published in 2013. He is working on two addtional memoirs: READY, FIRE, AIM! A SURVIVOR'S TALES OF ENTREPRENEURIAL TERROR and COWBOY FROM PRAGUE.