I attended Glenbard North high School. I went to Elmhurst College and got my Bachelor’s Degree in Biology. Shortly thereafter I started working at Quest Diagnostics. My title was a medical technologist. Two years into working at Quest Diagnostics, I decide that I wanted to pursue a different career. I always had a knack for working with computers and the timing was perfect as the economy was in th
e midst of Dot-com boom. I got my Masters in Computer Network Systems at Elmhurst College and shortly thereafter was employed at Argonne National Laboratory. I am presently employed at that company as Scientific Network Manager. Ronald Berns who has been a father figure and seen me through my life always kept telling me that, “I should be doing inventing things instead of Biology or Computer” whenever he sees a product that he likes. He did not oppose Biology or Computer he just wanted me to strive further in life. So my curious brain started generating ideas and sure enough I have plenty of them. On December 10, 2013 had my first patent (Stair climbing system US 8602196 B1). Which leads not now. I am in the process of developing a magnetic sport pad which is adapted to be attached to and removable from a vertical surface. An image of a sports equipment is printed on the sports pad. The sports equipment image is of actual dimensions for simulating the corresponding real sports equipment. The real sports equipment can be a tennis net, a hockey goal, a lacrosse goal, etc. The sports pad also serves as a protection layer of the vertical surface. We are also kicking the idea around of producing semi adhesive add-on so it can adhere to nonmagnetic surfaces. The inspiration for this idea came as I remembered using the garage door as a backboard to play tennis. I did not do any damage to the garage but remember the imprints the tennis ball left behind (which I had to cleanup afterwards). I hope to bring the same kind of small pleasures while keeping the game real, easy to setup, no cleanup, and prevent damage.
