: About Me

I am the daddy of five great kids and the lucky husband of a wonderful wife. I have been a ballet dancer (when I say that I picked up girls, I mean it literally), choreographer, lighting designer, software engineer (the arts are a great hobby), project and program manager, and technology consultant.

I was the Director of New Product Research at Helium until very recently and now am in the market for a new opportunity in Product Management. I also have my own small company to invent new products and license them.

A few years back, my best friend needed someone to ride with him for his triathlon training. After one season, I was struggling to stay up with him and thought that I needed to give this triathlon thing a try. Bam - I was hooked!

My passion is ...

Building and fixing things

I know too much about ...

light, lighting design, lighting equipment

My parents always told me ...

Dad said, "Hold your head up high, son." Mom said, "Watch where you're going."

My childhood ambition ...

To fly

My favorite memory ...

Marrying my wife, multiple times.

My best moment ...

Five of them. The birth of each of my children.

My inspiration ...

My parents, my wife, my children, my best friend

Travel > Air Travel & Airlines How a bird strike can crash a jet airplane

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So just how does a bird weighing 12 lbs (5.4 kg) bring down a 160,000 lbs (72,575 kg) airliner and cause it to crash? What kind of match-up is this anyway? Ladies and Gentlemen; may I have your attention please?! In the near corner we have the champion of modern mass transportation - the jet engine powered Airbus A320-200, weighing in at one hundred sixty thousand pounds! And in the far corner, representing the Class Aves (birds) and weighing in at twelve pounds, we have a Canada Goose! The answer is actually pretty simple. The bird, or in some cases, many birds, get sucked into the engine...

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