Tom has played a pivotal role in the transfer of knowledge within the regional Research Triangle Park, NC software and reliability engineering community. His specific interests are the software engineering process and reliability engineering. He holds copyrights to a suite containing software and reliability engineering tools. The suite of tools can be obtained without charge from http://qed1.home.mindspring.com. His other published papers include works dealing with software development process models, Monte Carlo simulation, and warranty program planning. In his most recent role he was employed as a software product manager within the medical device arena. Previously he was employed in R&D developing of automated unit and component testing tools as well as graphical user interfaces. He has selectively provided his services as an independent contractor for over ten years. Prior to that he provided reliability engineering at Telex and Texas Instruments supporting computer communication products, large scale integration circuits, and laser guided weapon products. He is a licensed professional engineer and a certified reliability engineer. He can be contacted via qed1@mindspring.com.