I grew up at a time when having fun as a kid involved dodging ticket inspectors on the “tube” (subway to those reading this in American English) and spending all day going around in circles on the aptly named Circle Line. By dint of address, I became a fan of Leyton Orient, a still little known soccer team. Only later in life did I live in Highbury and Islington long enough to claim a modest affinity to the more successful Arsenal Football Club.
Now of course I am Red Sox, New England Patriots, Celtics, Bruins and Revolution fan.

As a teenager, I learned much from the part time jobs I worked until college. I learned how to smoke without being sick and more importantly about encounters of the female kind, thanks to my friend and mentor, Mick the Milkman. I learned how to drive a car from Phil the car salesman, when not cleaning cars on the lot.
After a brief but educational interlude working at a seaside pleasure park (think Coney Island), making change and making out, I became an engineering apprentice at Marconi Elliot Avionics and graduated in mechanical engineering.

After graduation as a product designer, my work involved many “firsts” that shaped the world’s communications infrastructure, including the TAT-8 and  PTAT-1 equipment that sit five miles down at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, passing little pulses of light between the “Old Country” and this “New World”.

I traveled extensively throughout Europe for two major telecommunication companies, creating partnerships and standards which enabled much of the growth in internet traffic and global communications that we take for granted today.

Two multi-year stints in Canada, in the beautiful capital city of Ottawa, brought fresh insights and the opportunity to develop new ideas with colleagues in Ottawa, Raleigh, Boston and London.

I rode the technology wave all the way into the Boston area, where, like for so much of the industry, the ride became a wipe out. But oh, what a ride it was. I would not change a single moment. 

After a brief period of introspection, I understood that what I really enjoyed was research, analyzing information to create new ideas and finding simple ways to express their complexity. I had been doing this all my life and the result was invariably words of explanation and persuasion, either spoken or written.

Fortunately, even in senior management and leadership roles, my instinct for change and innovation was as strong as ever and so I went back to school to sharpen my writing skills.  

I love mystery stories so naturally I chose mystery writing as my genre for fiction. I am a member of the Mystery Writers of America and my first novel, an old lag's tale of Winning Ways, awaits publication.

I studied journalism, created too many blogs to maintain, and volunteered to write newsletters for several professional organizations. I am a freelance correspondent with the Community Newspaper Company  covering local people, organizations and events