Primary interest: submarine models & technical history of submarines. I have an extensive (>200) set of submarine books, numerous articles, and non-classified materials given to me over the years. In addition, I've been building submarine display models for about 15 years (after a break from model building from the mid-1960's), and have contributed articles on the technical history of submarines to the SubCommittee Report, the submarine interest magazine of the SubCommittee.
For the past 4 years, I have been working with the Vienna-based documentary film producer Michael White on a film with the working title: "The Raising of the K-129". This film deals with the real story of the CIA's operation to attempt to recover the sunken Soviet submarine, the K-129, a Golf II class SSB. We have been able to locate a number of the principal engineers in that historic recovery operation, and hope to tell, in great detail, the true story of that amazing operation. Those engineers are providing detailed drawings, video and personal accounts of the Glomar Explorer's recovery operation.
Here's a web link to the film: http://www.projectjennifer.at/
Click on the Trailer tab to see a preview. The DVD can be ordered on the web site. At present, Naval Historian Norman Polmar is working on a book based on the reserach done for the documentary film.
In "real life" when I am not involved in model building, I have 2 degrees, a B.S. and Ph.D. in Microbiology. I did Postdoctoral work and stayed on as an Assistant Professor at the Rockefeller University in New York City from 1978-1986. My research was focused on the genetics and biochemical basis of the then new problem of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria. I joined the pharmaceutical industry in 1986, working for Bristol-Myers Squibb. Over the past 23 years, I have also worked for Pfizer and currently AstraZeneca, where I am a senior research scientist member in Infectious Diseases.