Dick’s key professional roles have been software engineer, web developer, writer, and researcher. He has extensive experience in software development, technical writing, and the history of computing.

Dick has a BA and MA in mathematics from UCLA. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Dick’s post-graduate education includes web development and data science with R, Python, and AI . He has written custom code to do XML data transformations, data wrangling, and web publishing.

He is also a history buff and has taken many classes on modern and ancient history.

For a number of years Dick volunteered as a researcher and cataloger at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, and at a number of archaeological and paleontological sites in California and the U.S. Mountain States. Dick has also done three hitches working as a volunteer on the Battleship Missouri in Pearl Harbor.

At the present, Dick likes to work on compiling his family history and studying Spanish, German,, and computer technology with a recent emphasis on AI.