Michael McDonald

Biography
While in the US Air Force in France, I attended the University of Nancy in Nancy, France majoring in Psychology. After getting out of the Air Force, I returned to Houston and worked a couple of years as a Electronics Test Pilot for Continental Radio Corporation. I then went with Control Data Corp and was hired to become the EIC of NASA's Manned Space Center's (now Johnson Space Center) Large Scale Scientific Computer Systems. During this tenure was when we did all of the simulations for the Lunar Landing which we finally accomplished back in July of 1969. After getting out of the Aerospace industry I persued a career in Geophysics with Western Geophysical in Galveston. I was hired to help with the design of a new method and computer system for gathering seismic information from both land and marine crews. I later became their Lab Supervisor over all crews worldwide. After seeing the Computer Industry go from the mammoth main frames down to the Mini Computer size I got back into arena with Mohawk Data Sciences and was the National Account Engineer in charge of all MDS systems at Tenneco Oil Company in Houston. Got disenchanted with Houston and computers and moved to San Diego and set up a BioFeedback Program for the Major Airlines. Retired and moved to my roots and then vowed never to stray too far again. I have since kinda sorta come out of retirement to start various projects and enterprises. Believe me, there is not such a thing as retirement for people with active minds. So here I am baby, back again, gonna watch another historical event take place with me right in the midst of it.