Born: Southern California
Lived: All over the US
Career(s): Construction management, publisher, programmer, writer, composer, political scientist
Education: Bachelors degree in music composition and communications. Currently pursuing doctorate in political science. Fields: World Politics and Methods
Marital Status: Almost married
Narrative:
About every five years or so I begin to itch for new surroundings. I've lived and worked all over the state of California, and been to most places (generally speaking) in the US.
In a lifelong search to find a single thing that consumes my thoughts, 9/11 was a catalyst for my current direction. When the event happened I was too old to join the armed services and I most certainly would have if I could have. I left my job and moved to new surroundings to contemplate what to do.
Combining skills I've developed over the years, I decided my best path was to pursue theories that I'd held all along; that the true key to stability in national security was through the exportation of economic rule-sets through whatever means are feasible. This determination leads to my current pursuit of an advanced degree in political science. At Claremont Graduate University I've forged a degree program that combines economics, mathematics, and political science. The final goal is the development of a national security model that incorporates economic rules set planning (I'm a commited free/open market capitalist) with military planning in a global context (globalization).
An ambitious goal indeed, but one that finally gives what I've always sought: to work on accomplishing something meaningful rather than climbing up the corporate ladder.
The pursuit thereof has rekindled my interest in commercial wargaming as a valuable conduit through which new models can be a conceived and applied in the form of playable games which might lend insight into world events and how to interpret them. This particular ambition, I'm discovering, is a challenging one. But it is largely why I decided to accept the post of editor of Fire & Movement magazine. From that post I hope to influence thinking in the hobby in such a way that some companies and designers might shake off the inertial elements of current wargame design paradigms, and pursue ideas that could lead to better understanding of current conflict and world events.
This website is intended in part to be a chronology of the journey that lies ahead.