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A/WWW Enterprises
785 Paul Birch Drive
Crownsville, MD 21032-1501
USA
warnock@awcubed.com
Phone/FAX: 410-923-1009
Here's a brief autobiography of my adventures and escapades. Feel free to use it, if you like. My resume is also available.
I received my M.A. in Mathematics from Penn State in 1978, taught Math at Penn State branch campuses for 2 years, then returned for graduate work in Astronomy at Penn State with Peter Usher, compiling catalogs of ultraviolet excess objects. I also spent two summers at Lowell Observatory with Wes Lockwood and Barry Lutz working on high-precision spectrophotometry of the outer planets. While at Lowell, I collaborated with Ted Bowell on a project to scan several of Usher's Palomar Schmidt plates for asteroids. We published a list of 26 new asteroids in the Minor Planet Circular. Some eight years later, one of the asteroids was rediscovered by an S. Nakano in Japan and, as one of the discoverers, I chose to name it in honor of Keith Whitley.
I went to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on a graduate student fellowship in 1982, developing astrometric software for the microdensitometer there, then left to teach Math at Orange County Community College in Middletown, NY for a year. I returned to Goddard in 1984 as a contractor for SASC (later ST Systems, STX and Hughes STX).
I spent the next six years there as the task leader of the contractor staff of the Large Scale Phenomena Network of the International Halley Watch, digitizing photographic plates of Comet Halley and supporting the production of the 26 disk IHW CD-ROM Archive, which has finally seen the light of day. Later, I spent two years working on target acquisitions for the GHRS team at Goddard, and a year producing a CD-ROM of data for investigation of the Greenhouse Effect for the NASA Climate Data System. That disk, the GEDEX CD-ROM, was distributed by President Bush at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992.
I spent my final two years at STX involved with the STELAR Project at the NSSDC, building WAIS capabilities as a framework for the electronic publication of scientific journals and for the more general issue of data distribution from large archives. I am currently also interested in archiving, data formats and standards. In October 1993, I was promoted to the head of STX's Information Systems Development Section for the NSSDC contract which enabled me to bring the power of WWW and WAIS to a wider range of applications and users. In January, 1994, I took on added responsibility as the head of the Global Change Master Directory task for HSTX, part of the EOS Data and Information System (EOSDIS).
In September 1994, I left Hughes STX to start my own consulting business - A/WWW Enterprises, specializing in applying network information tools like Isite, WAIS and World Wide Web for information suppliers on the Internet. I've been involved in a number of projects, ranging from supporting freeWAIS and Isite for CNIDR to developing an electronic version of the Astrophysical Journal Letters for the American Astronomical Society.
In my copious spare time, I was one of the current developers of the IMDISP program, an image display program for MS-DOS computers, distributed with a large number of CD-ROMs (Voyager, Magellan, NSIDC, GRIPS, IHW, etc).
I played guitar with the Baltimore-based country and western band, the New Early Sunrise Band. Fellow net.traveler Geff King is an alumnus of the band (you can see us in concert at Nashville's, at the Holiday Inn in Timonium, MD - that's me on the left). We released one recording, featuring High Tech Redneck. I also occasionally review recordings for Bluegrass Unlimited magazine.
Here are some projects you'll find my fingerprints on:
Last revised: 04 July, 2003
