Doc (whose nickname comes from the title character in the BBC's television series "Doctor Who") was introduced to the AAVSO in graduate school at Swinburne University, but it took him until after graduation to finally join up. Doc managed to do this just a couple of weeks before Janet Mattei passed on and will always regret never having the chance to meet her. One of his first AAVSO functions was her memorial symposium held at Brandeis University.

Doc's first love was astronomy as a kid. However, during most of high school, his math grades were nowhere near good enough for such dreams. He ended up studying computer science in the mid-80s at SUNY Oswego. While there he took a minor in Astronomy and graduated with the highest GPA for the courses in the class - a straight A average blemished by a single B. He also took over, developed, and presented programming for the Oswego Piez Hall Planetarium for two years after his Planetarium Operations teacher passed on.

Computationally, Doc spent eight years as the Computer User Services Manager for SUNY Morrisville's Academic Computing Center creating that college's very first web site. Leaving there for the city of Ithaca he worked directly under the Ithaca Mayor as the city's first Computer and Network Systems Administrator. The last eight years have been spent at the CBORD Group in database applications installation, systems & network consultation, and VPN implementation.

At home Doc is supported by his two cats, Castor and Pollux (who will also respond to their Flamsteed designations!). He owns a 150mm Newtonian scope with which he does visual observing. At one point he'd like to add CCD capabilities to his observing. When not doing astronomy in one form or another Doc praktikas parolanta Esperanto, does karate, and tries to get better at playing Go. He is also active in the Unitarian-Universalist and Zen Buddhist communities.

Doc assists Aaron with server and workstation maintenance, writes Perl and PHP programs, and helps Kate out with web page creation and updating. He is still trying to figure out how he garnered karma good enough to give him the chance to do such work with such people as the AAVSO staff and membership.