The University of Texas at Austin )

BS in Mechanical Engineering cum laude, Engineering Scholar

The United States Naval Academy

15th Company, Major RW Hodory, U.S. Marine Corps commanding.
Honors: Superintendent's List, Dean's List, Company Commander, Platoon Leader, Admin Officer, ranked 21st in my class.

experience

O'Connell Robertson & Associates

ENGINEERING CONSULTANT, Austin, TX: Specification, design and drafting of HVAC, electrical, lighting, plumbing, and fire sprinkler systems using AUTOCAD and other software programs. Started my own software company, Bar X Software. Extensive experience in mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) design of schools, hospitals, community colleges, government, military and heavy commercial projects. I have been licensed as a Professional Engineer in five disciplines: MEP, software and now aerospace. I was Design Review Engineer for the Texas Loan Star Program (the largest energy conservation program in the U.S.) for several years.

E4 Clark, U.S. Army

U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range NM

E4 WEATHER OBSERVER, WSMR New Mexico: Received the Army Commendation Medal or (the highest peacetime award of the Army) for "staunch individualism and impeccable moral fortitude." I turned in a half dozen senior NCO's for using drugs on the job. White Sands is the highest security installation in the U.S. and site of the "Star Wars" missile defense research. Later served as a CHAPLAIN'S ASSISTANT.

Apparently the brass didn't want word to get out about rampant drug abuse at their premier research facility, because I was railroaded out of the Army a few months later for what the VA calls a "stress disorder." I've appealed ever since, only to be told recently that only a formal Act of Congress would force the Army to reopen my case. That's when I wrote Behold Leviathan, to protest.

EXXON Company U.S.A. off and on

DESIGN ENGINEER, Inland Drilling Group, New Orleans LA: summer and odd semester jobs, working my way through college and after.

community involvement

Psychological Associates Advisory Committee, public member

A subcommittee of the Psychologists Licensing Board for the State of Texas ~ appointed by then Governor George "W" Bush, Jr. I resigned when the Board wouldn't let me present for discussion a paper I had just published that linked Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Indoor Air Quality. Behold Leviathan suggests Global Warming may be causing a world wide epidemic of ADD... Other facets of this extremely complex issue are discussed in my small book of political commentary called The Pelican's Briefs.

KFON Radio

daily energy tips on this all-talk radio station (1993 - 1996) a.k.a. "BTU" Bill. These tips are in an appendix of my textbook Retrofitting for Energy Conservation from McGraw-Hill, described below.

The influential antebellum Erb family of Memphis, Tennessee were my father's people, and my mother's father was Professor Ralph Hayes, Founder and Dean of the School of Forestry at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was a direct descendent of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, the only president before Bush not elected by the people ~ a gruff man whom everybody hated, because he protected the South from the worse of the Reconstruction. Technically speaking, the family name "Clark" did not come into being until circa 1900 when Grampa Joseph Howard Cleary came to America from Cork County Ireland, and his name was "Americanized." The Clan O'Cleary were one of the three ruling classes of the Druids; we were the traditional antiquarians or keepers-of-history.

The Family Bible ended up in my possession recently, with entries going back to Louis Erb born in Memphis in 1844. A brother of his was Dr. William Erb, a very famous physician in Germany who did pioneering research in psychophysiology. The muscle reflex when you hit that spot on your knee, causing it to kick right up, is named after him ~ as are a dozen other more obscure neurological phenomena. Both Louis Erb and his daughter's father-in-law, Colonel William N. Brown of Memphis (commander of the 20th Mississippi Regiment, one of the very last Rebel units to surrender) fought in the Vicksburg Campaign on the Confederate side, under General Earl van Dorn. I wrote a novella about all this, called Deo Vindici "God will Vindicate." The main characters has flashbacks or "past life regressions" to a place called The Osireion at Abydos, if you want to read more about that 10,000 year old structure in Egypt.

The Erbs emigrated from Germany to seek religious freedom in America. They were fundamentalist Christians, leaving Europe in the wake of the reformation ~ and the continent-wide lessening in Christian ideals. Six of the Erb families founded the Amish Mennonites in Pennsylvania. They were pacifists. The seventh were not pacifists; they found a home deep in the heart of the Old South.

A third brother, Seigfried "Solomon" Erb was an enlisted man with the Napoleon's Rifles of the 1st Arkansas Cavalry, the very first Confederate army unit organized. He too was at Vicksburg, but there seems to be no record of him after the war. I'm thinking after they were disbanded he took on a new first name, of Wyatt. Then, at the end of hostilities, he went out west and became a U.S. Marshall by the name of Wyatt Erb, although he apparently "Westernized" the name for anonymity.

Electrical Design Guide for Commercial Buildings
350 page practical design book from McGraw-Hill (1999).
This is a very practical book that has some basic theory too, intended to help designers and contractors do a better job, and to make the workplace safer. The book focuses on ways to design energy efficient electrical systems and how to modify existing electrical systems to use less energy without diminishing performance. There is an order form in the book that, along with proof of purchase, can be used to obtain free software (Voltage Drop, Lighting Design, and Short Circuit Analysis) with a commercial value of over $1500.

Retrofitting for Energy Conservation
400 page practical design book from McGraw-Hill (1998).

Excerpts from each chapter are on the side bar menu. The book is a hands-on book of literally hundreds of simple low-cost and no-cost energy saving projects that can be done on any type of building. The book is structured so that a comprehensive retrofit of all building systems can be done starting with no cost projects and those that can be incorporated into maintenance work. There is an order form in the book that, along with proof of purchase, can be used to obtain free software (Peak Loads, Annual Loads, Bin Analysis) with a commercial value of over $2500.