I was born on March 5th, 1949 in Bergisch Gladbach near the 2000 year old city of Cologne in Germany. Cologne missed its 2000-year anniversary celebrations because, right about when they were gearing up for the grand festivities, they dug up a few extra ruins even older than the two millenia, and thus they were cheated out of one huge big party. Sigh, poor Colonians. :)

I received my technical education in Cologne from the "Nikolaus-August-Otto Ingenieurschule" (School of Engineering) which is now called Fachhochschule Köln or University of Applied Science as they call themselves in English. (Nikolaus August Otto was the inventor of the four-stroke-combustion engine, so if you drive a car you have something to thank him for.) At this illustrious educational facility that bears Otto's name, I majored in "Electrical Engineering" with a minor in "Data Processing". I have worked in the computer industry for over 20 years, with more than 15 years of experience as a manager.

In 1974 I married Una Jeffers, an American whom I met in Cologne in Germany. Una is the granddaughter of the late American poet Robinson Jeffers. - Una grew up in a lovely stone house called "Tor House" , it has a massive 40 foot high granite tower that her grandfather built right on the Pacific ocean in the charming little town of Carmel-by-the-Sea.

I came to the U.S.A. in the summer of 1976 and we settled for 25 years in Sunnyvale in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before I joined "Sun Microsystems, Inc." in 1989, I worked for 8 years as an engineering manager at "Rolm Corporation" a telecommunication company (now a part of Siemens AG Germany); and before that at "Spectra Medical Systems" a provider of hospital administration systems.

For almost 12 years I worked as a manager at Sun Mircosystems Inc., in Mountain View and Menlo Park in California (that is in the Silicon Valley - south of San Francisco). My last position was in the Solaris Operating System department at Sun where I was responsible for "Commands and Libraries" and for the "Application Binary Interface (ABI)" in the Operating Systems Development organization.

Now I am retired (Yippie!!) and finally I have time to concentrate and enjoy my artistic endeavors which hopefully will involve much life drawing, painting, and sculpting, and some exiting travel.

Our hobbies are:

We like to travel and I have been to places like Peru and the Amazon river, Japan, India, and all over Europe. Sometimes I wrote a trip report or have photos online.  They can be viewed here.

  I like Art very much.  Currently I enjoy sculpting in Bronze and Clay, painting and drawing very much.  In Dec 2002 I had two sculptures exhibited at the Grants Pass Museum of Art here in Oregon. At the moment I am taking sculpture classes at the Umpqua Community College here in Roseburg. I also frequent the UVAA Pottery Lab to try my hands at the potters wheel;  but it is Sculpture I really love.   You can view some of my works on my Arts Webpages.

Una's hobby is her Garden& Of course we also really like our Cats

Here is a Link to other  Pages that I find of Interest