- Began his writing career in 2015 after retiring from more than 35 years of working in the Southern California Aerospace Industry – Received a NASA Medal of Service from JPL in Pasadena
- Honored with the Irwin Award for Best Mystery of the Year from the Book Publicists of Southern California
- “Grew up” working for a major commercial aircraft manufacturer – started at age 19, delivering mail
- Focused his career on developing “Improvement Programs,” working closely with top-level executive teams of three separate major Aerospace Corporations over twenty-five years…eventually became an expert at “Bad Management” after years of training managers, and developed a great deal of empathy for employees striving to succeed, often in spite of their managers
- Great challenges working with executives who provided the basis for “Executive Malice”
– Most all of us have bosses, and with them comes a host of very real challenges – just trying to survive in the “Corporate Jungle.”
- The Me-Too movement was alive and well in the 80s and 90s as well as today
- Bad behavior of many managers often goes on unchecked
- It’s amazing that large companies remain in business, given the competence and behavior of most managers and many senior executives
- Management training doesn’t work, nor do major corporate improvement programs
- Manipulation and dishonesty is unfortunately too often the basis for both promotion and decision making




