In
1995 I took the job with the US Army as an Electronics Engineer, immediately after graduating
from the South Dakota School of
Mines and Technology. I have a huge sense of patriotic duty. I enjoy working
with the military and all the cool things you can do. So this Army job seemed
like the right thing to do, plus they paid for my graduate degree.
I went to Texarkana, TX for US Army, Intern training, at Red River Army
Depot, which resulted in a Master of Science in Engineering
from the University of Arkansas and a diploma from the US Army School of Engineering
and Logistics, SEL, in Test and Evaluation Engineering. My first
assignment after intern training was at Ft. Monmouth, NJ which lasted four years.
I spent my time there managing COMINT R&D programs, writing a little
code for demodulators, and programming Labview
to control the Rhode
& Schwarz CMD-55 GSM Hand Set test set, FSEA20 Spectrum Analyzer,
and the SMIQ and SME03 signal and vector generators.