Mr. Gregory is an Air Force veteran and retired civil service engineer whose career centered on combat and combat support equipment; their maintenance, development, test, manufacture, deployment, and support.  He served as a test engineer and as a test site manager, as a staff quality assurance engineer, as a Product Assurance Office Manager, and as a project manager. Duty assignments included US Army acquisition commands, test sites, Army and joint project management offices, and the Pentagon where he served as a program manager for the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition. Fulfilling his duties and responsibilities required that he write and revise literally hundreds of documents such as regulations, RFPs, specifications, test plans and procedures, requirements documents, budget and planning documents, and project planning documents.

As an unexpected bonus he realized that he enjoyed writing and the research behind it, and that he enjoyed informing others. It was a nice fit because his assignments gave him ample opportunity to meet, interact with, and understand people from a variety of national, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. It honed his ability to inform individuals and groups with differing levels of technical expertise and differing educational backgrounds; and to do it with a degree of clarity that required subject knowledge, the ability to capture the reader’s attention, and the skill to convey the information with the least amount of confusion or misunderstanding.

Mr. Gregory earned the Bachelor of Science degree at California State University Long Beach where he was inducted into Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu, and earned the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.  He is a graduate of the U.S. Army’s Logistics and Acquisition Management Program, its Quality and Reliability Engineering Program, and its Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Program. He is an Army Certified Level III Program Manager and a past Certified Quality Engineer.

 He continued his association with the defense industry after leaving government service by completing several writing assignments that dealt with proposal preparation. Other assignments included a study that recommended changes to improve a contractor's support organization for fielded equipment, and a study that updated the client's methodology for locating suitable defense related bid opportunities on the web.

More recently, Mr. Gregory has added to his versatility by studying B2B and B2C marketing and Internet Research techniques; and with assignments in the real estate, restaurant, entertainment, and health supplement markets.

Publications include:

     Global Positioning System Coarse Acquisition Code Signal Degradation Under Helicopter Rotor

         Blades (Note: study is not in the public domain)

     Positive Thinking and You (ebook)

     Introduction to Stress Management I (ebook)

     A Hypnotic State of Mind (ebook)

     Positive Thinking and You (2nd ed)

In addition, Mr. Gregory hosts and writes:

     A continuing business article series (Documentation and Profitability -- Together Forever)

     A blog My Independent View whose theme is "Commentary on the state of the States"

Works in progress include a science fiction novel, several short stories, and a companion to Positive Thinking and You (2nd ed).