Jerry Petrey is a retired Senior Principal Systems Engineer from Raytheon Missile Systems with a BSEE from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma who has done mostly embedded software design in his career which included work at JPL, Boeing, TRW, NASA, and Lockheed. He started using Ada in 1989 and never went back to the other languages. He now continues to work on robotics and microcontroller hobby applications as well as do some consulting as president of his consulting company, GP-Software.
His hobbies include hiking, walking with his wife and very active Australian Cattle dog, occasionally teaching flying and studying astrophysics and quantum mechanics.