Norm holds a BS in Nuclear Engineering from Purdue University and served in the US Navy as a reactor operator on nuclear submarines. He retired from the Navy reserve with 41 years of service has also retired from his work as a senior software system engineer. Norm has been a licensed extra class radio amateur for 55 years, is an amateur astronomer, interested mostly in radio astronomy and astrophotography and has built a small radio telescope using a discarded satellite dish to observe the sun’s radio emissions.