mechanical engineering, worked for Martin/Marietta Co. in Denver and Tucson, Arizona, and in the Titan Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program and the Apollo program for North American Space and Information Systems. He later was product and manufacturing manager for Raven, Industries, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. After retirement, he taught with the American Production Inventory Control Society before forming KLQ Consulting. He lived in Sioux Falls.