billwall
Bill Wall
Palm Bay, FL, United States 
Member Since: May 18, 2007
Last Login: Aug 20, 2008
Profile Views: 7370
Points: 1979
Homepage: www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378
Birthday: May 11, 1951
Occupation: Systems Engineer
USCF Rating: 2000
About Me:
Senior Systems Engineer at Harris Corporation (helped develop STAT, a vulnerability assessment tool); tennis and chess coach; retired Air Force officer (1970 to 1995); former NASA computer security engineer (6 years at NASA Ames at Moffett Field, CA); former crew chief on B-52 bombers and KC-135Q tankers (4 years Southeast Asia); live just south of Cape Canaveral (see all the Space Shuttle and rocket launches, and hear all the Shuttle landings); degrees in physics and electrical engineering (Air Force Institute of Technology); oldest of 9 brothers and sisters; married over 30 years.
Author of 29 chess books (500 xxx Miniature series, Grob, Larsen's, Dunst, etc) and hundreds of chess articles; former President of Ohio Chess Association and NC Chess Association; former USCF delegate and tournament director; co-editor of Ohio and NC state chess magazine; former secretary of Chess Journalists of America; former president of chess clubs in Dayton, Palo Alto, San Antonio, and Melbourne, Florida.