My working career consisted mainly of working with computers in various roles. My first real job started in 1960 with an enlistment in the U S Navy. After a year of bootcamp, electricity and electronics training, I was assigned to the USS Sampson DDG 10 as a missile guidance computer technician (FTM). I was honorably discharged after three years in Uncle Sam's Canoe Club, where my only claim to fame was to be part of the Cuban missile blockade in 1962. I left the Navy to join Control Data as an electronics technician and have stayed in computer roles since.

I spent two years as an electronics technician with Control Data before beginning school full time at the University of Minnesota and working full time in the biophysics department. I finished my bachelor’s degree in 1968 with a double major in math and accounting. I worked full time during this period learning to program in binary. I was able to complete several binary language programs that analyzed EKG's and EEG’s .

After a year of accounting work in the public sector I returned to the University of Minnesota where I worked and studied until 1977. I received my PhD in educational administration in 1977. My doctoral dissertation topic was database design methodologies. From 1969 to 1977 I also worked as a systems analyst for the Administrative Computing Department of the University. I worked on the designs of the university’s payroll system, various components of their accounting system and was responsible for the implementation a new fundraising system for the University of Minnesota Foundation.

After spending two years as an assistant professor at the University of St Thomas, I joined Munsingwear as an Assistant Vice President for Information Technology. In 1981 I left Munsingwear and, for the next 10 years, consulted for a several corporations in the Twin Cities area designing accounting systems, manufacturing systems, fundraising systems and, over time, many other business systems.

In 1990 my family and I moved to Rochester NY where I worked initially as a Director of Customer Services for Lawyers Co-op Publishing (LCP) Company. I left New York after spending three years with LCP and several years consulting with Bausch and Lomb and Rochester Telephone. In 1997 I joined the College of St Catherine as the Director of Technology. Six years later I retired from St Catherine’s and continued my career as a consultant working part time with a variety of clients.

My career gave me an opportunity to work with challenging systems design projects and to polish my drawing skills by creating artistic flowcharts and systems documentation. When I finished my doctorate, I had spare time during which I began to create Formulart. This became the start of my avocation as an artist.