Introduce Yourself : Introduction: Walker G. Bennett, a.k.a. Ben W. Gardner by Walker Bennett

Published novelist, unfilmed screenwriter -- technically retired. I have enjoyed a colorful and varied career. After majoring in electrical engineering at the University of Arizona, I joined the Navy and served with the UDT (forerunner of the Seals). Upon discharge, I entered into broadcasting and for the next 17 years the only position I didn't hold was as a station owner. I have taught physics, computer programming and design, and digital electronics at several universities. I love teaching and I enter academia at least once every ten years in order to maintain an appreciation for the ‘real world’ outside. I have held positions as a computer programmer, designer, systems engineer, and systems administrator as well as owning or collaborating in several computer-consulting companies as well as an advertising and public relations firm. I have lived and worked in almost all of the lower 48 States as well as South Africa and Israel. I learned the Russian language in self-defense while working with several Russian ex-patriots in New Jersey that would make jokes in their language about my resemblance to the late Vladimir Lenin. I currently live and write in Guelph, Ontario.