About Creative Minds’ Music’s Musings

With my mother as my teacher, I began studying the piano and music theory at the age of seven. My father did much to encourage progress in my studies—both musical and school-related. As an adolescent, my musical accomplishments were so consistently rewarding to me that I never sincerely considered any occupation or vocation, other than musical ones.

I attended Birmingham-Southern College (BSC, 69-70), the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH, 70-71), and then, Samford University (SU, Birmingham, AL, USA, 71-73). I graduated from Samford with a Bachelor’s degree in Music-Education with emphasis in piano-performance.

Thereafter, I spent ten years with music as my vocation – teaching music, tuning pianos, serving as church-organist, nightclub-band-musician, and performing as piano-soloist. These years were productive, but nearly ended in my starvation and financial ruin. Facing dire economic consequences, I went back to school, taking both undergraduate and graduate computer-science and software-engineering coursework at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) over a period of nearly ten years.

I began my 32-year software-engineering career at Intergraph Corporation (Huntsville, AL, USA) in 1985. During the years I worked there, until I retired in 2017 I worked in the area of digital cartography. The maps that Intergraph customers make/made are used by civilian and military mapping-agencies and public-safety dispatch agencies in the US and throughout the world. Over the years, I led software development and maintenance teams of various sizes. As a part of this work, I was greatly enriched by highly effective, cooperative work with team-members in Hyderabad, India.