William H. Clark's resume

WH Clark 2nd education

The University of Texas at Austin (1998 - 2003)

MSE Aerospace Engineering ~ Numerical Optimization.

Plus (more or less) all for PhD but dissertation. My Ph.D research was a computer optimization of the Earth to Mars trajectory, called "The Gravity Assisted Bi-Elliptic Transfer Orbit." Or GRABET orbit, for short.

The University of Texas at Austin (1977-78)

BS in Mechanical Engineering cum laude, Engineering Scholar

The United States Naval Academy (1974-77)

Superintendent's List, Dean's List, Company Commander, Platoon Leader, Admin Officer, ranked 21st in my class.

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (1973-74)

Dean's List, Honor Roll, 4.0 GPA.

experience
O'Connell Robertson & Associates 1988 - 1999

ENGINEERING CONSULTANT, Austin, TX: Specification, design and drafting of HVAC, electrical, lighting, plumbing, and fire sprinkler systems using AUTOCAD and other software programs. Started my own software company, Archi Tech Software. Extensive experience in mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) design of schools, hospitals, community colleges, government, military and heavy commercial projects. I have been licensed as a Professional Engineer in five disciplines: MEP, software and now aerospace. I was Design Review Engineer for the Texas Loan Star Program (the largest energy conservation program in the U.S.) for several years.
Nuclear Power Supply, Inc. 1987 - 1988

DESIGN ENGINEER, Austin, Texas: Conducted cost estimating, product development, thermal analysis and computer-aided design of pipe supports for large bore piping in nuclear and conventional power plants, refineries, wastewater treatment plants and other industrial facilities.
Research 1986 - 1987

Various employers while writing and doing research that was well received by NASA. Positions included physics lab assistant at Texas A & M, high school substitute teacher, handyman on a startup dairy farm in Vermont, published a newsletter "The Energy Times."

Mr. Bill in grad school

U.S. Army black Sands Missile Range NM 1983 - 1986

E4 WEATHER OBSERVER, WSMR New Mexico: Received the Army Commendation Medal or (the highest peacetime award of the Army) for "staunch individualism and impeccable moral fortitude." I turned in a half dozen senior NCO's for using drugs on the job. black Sands is the highest security installation in the U.S. and site of the "Star Wars" missile defense research.

I also gave a two hour seminar on some research that I have recently followed up on in grad school at UT Austin. The seminar was for the post commander, Major General Niles Fulwyler and the chief scientist at the High Energy Laser Project, Dr. Ralph Davies.

EXXON Company U.S.A. 1978 - 1983

DESIGN ENGINEER, Inland Drilling Group, New Orleans LA: Designed and administered exploration drill well programs. Duties required expertise in fluids rheology, piping design, geological evaluation, and drilling tools/equipment specification. Extensive field supervision during critical drilling operations such as casing seat hunts and abnormal pressure detection. Project engineer for a 20,000 ft rank wildcat in South Louisiana near Port Hudson, and a member of the design team on the famous Monguere prospect (just outside of Jackson, Mississippi), the deepest, hottest inland drill well completed by Exxon to that date.

community involvement

Psychological Associates Advisory Committee, public member

A subcommittee of the Psychologists Licensing Board for the State of Texas ~ appointed by then Governor George "W" Bush, Jr.

KFON Radio

daily energy tips on this all-talk radio station (1993 - 1996) a.k.a. "BTU" Bill. These tips are in an appendix of my textbook "Retrofitting for Energy Conservation" from McGraw-Hill.

my ancestors

The influential antebellum Erb family of Memphis, Tennessee were my father's people, and my mother's father was Professor Ralph Hayes, Founder and Dean of the School of Forestry at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was a direct descendent of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, the only president before Bush not elected by the people ~ a gruff man whom everybody hated, because he protected the South from the worse of the Reconstruction. Technically speaking, the family name "Clark" did not come into being until circa 1900 when Grampa Joseph Howard Cleary came to America from Cork County Ireland, and his name was "Americanized." The Clan O'Cleary were one of the three ruling classes of the Druids; we were the traditional antiquarians or keepers-of-history.

The Family Bible ended up in my possession recently, with entries going back to Louis Erb born in Memphis in 1844. A brother of his was Dr. William Erb, a very famous physician in Germany who did pioneering research in psychophysiology. The muscle reflex when you hit that spot on your knee, causing it to kick right up, is named after him ~ as are a dozen other more obscure neurological phenomena. Both Louis Erb and his daughter's father-in-law, Colonel William N. Brown of Memphis (commander of the 20th Mississippi Regiment, one of the very last Rebel units to surrender) fought in the Vicksburg Campaign on the Confederate side, under General Earl van Dorn.

The Erbs emigrated from Germany to seek religious freedom in America. They were fundamentalist Christians, leaving Europe in the wake of the reformation ~ and the continent-wide lessening in Christian ideals. Six of the Erb families founded the Amish Mennonites in Pennsylvania. They were pacifists. The seventh were not pacifists; they found a home deep in the heart of the Old South.

A third brother, Seigfried "Solomon" Erb was an enlisted man with the Napoleon's Rifles of the 1st Arkansas Cavalry, the very first Confederate army unit organized. He too was at Vicksburg, but there seems to be no record of him after the war. I'm thinking after they were disbanded he took on a new first name, of Wyatt. Then, at the end of hostilities, he went out west and became a U.S. Marshall by the name of Wyatt Erb, although he apparently "Westernized" the name for anonymity.

publications - technical papers

Optimized Energy Conservation Analysis Using Mathematical Algorithms

Improving Building Systems in Hot & Humid Climates symposium, Dallas Texas 1994

Computer Aided Exploration Well Drilling Techniques

Industrial Engineering Conference, Houston Texas 1996
Nuclear Enhanced Geothermal Energy Recovery Using Energy Optimization Techniques

Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1995

Japanese Nuclear Engineering Society, 1996 Annual meeting

Geothermal Energy Keynote Speech

Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1995

Use of Low Carbon Steels in a Reactor Coolant Loop

U.S. (ASME) Nuclear Engineering Conference, New Orleans LA 1996

Mathematical Analysis of Lighting Design Methodologies

Improving Building Systems in Hot & Humid Climates symposium, Dallas Texas 1992

Illuminating Engineering Society of the Soviet Union, 1994 Annual Proceedings
Offshore Applications of Water Source Heat Pumps for Integrated Energy Use

Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1995

Analysis of the Dynamics of Flat Plate Heat Exchangers vs. Heat Wheels in Outside Air Systems

Improving Building Systems in Hot & Humid Climates symposium, Dallas Texas 1996
Computer Aided Lighting Calculations for Optimal Conditions

Texas Association of Energy Engineering Conference, Dallas Texas 1992

Statistical Evaluation of The Psychological Implications of Indoor Air Quality

HPAC News 1996
Optimization of Lighting Design Procedures

Improving Building Systems in Hot & Humid Climates symposium, 1993
Computer Optimization of the HVAC Duct Design Process

Improving Building Systems in Hot & Humid Climates symposium, Dallas Texas 1994
Micro-Management of Lighting Controls Projects Using Computer Optimization Techniques

Improving Building Systems in Hot & Humid Climates symposium, Dallas Texas 1994
Statistical Survey of Water Source Heat Pump Technology for Large School Buildings

Improving Building Systems in Hot & Humid Climates symposium, Dallas Texas 1996

Efficacy Analysis of Ground Source Heat Pump Installations in the Ausin (Texas) ISD

ASHRAE Symposium 1996, reprinted in the HPAC News 1977

Optimal Thermodynamic Design of Therapy Pool HVAC Systems

Engineered Systems magazine, April 1996
Optimal Energy Conservation Projects for Schools

Improving Building Systems in Hot & Humid Climates symposium, Dallas Texas 1996

Dehumidifying a School Library

Engineered Systems magazine, April 1994

Major Energy Conservation Projects

Engineered Systems magazine, 1995

Energy Conservation in Central Plants

Engineered Systems magazine, 1995

Quarterly Series of Articles on Energy Conservation in Schools

LoneSTAR, the official magazine of the Texas Association of School Boards, Austin Texas

Reprinted in HPAC News, 1996