• Raised in Hawai’i, swam for High School & AAU; and an avid surfer, I have respect & concern for ocean.
• Father was a reputable Tugboat Captain (in 60's), moving product throughout Hawai'i and Pacific.
• Graduate from Aiea High; a 'Beta' student for early admittance program at Leeward Community College major: Marine Tech (incomplete) and Minor: Japanese Language (complete).
• Work experience in Hawai'i Tour Industry to witness how progress and modernization in Hawai'i is a model for 'Globalization'.
• Career at Anchorage Fire Dept. (81-98) Fire suppression, Fireground Hydraulics and HazMat provided rudimentary knowledge beneficial for green/clean innovations conceived.
• In '84 a Hawaiian floral & gift store called Hale o Na Pua was established to ease wife's homesickness for Hawaiian homeland that revealed Alaskans' affinity for Hawai'i which insisted expansion plan to build a luau garden facility. In drafting renovations to reconfigure a Quonset building into a biosphere, an innovative clean energy power generator was born. However, the proposal to develop a green power system for this biosphere was not well received in Alaska (oil rules!!) so could not get financing.
• Since '85, the clean energy system was modified and refined into theoretical concepts proposed to SBIR, STTR and various gov. agencies as innovative 'green, clean' solutions for power, propulsion and waste management/recycling (Closed-Loop Infrastructure) that functions anywhere on earth, (a few even for off-world) hoping R&D funds would be secured as seed.
• In mid-80's, early-on research for RFP's were conducted in public library, and books of sciences, physics, green architecture, materials, electromagnetics, aero/hydrodynamics, etc. were bought...have compiled an extensive personal library.
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Relocated back to Hawai'i, in '09, where socio-political infrastructure is based on tourism & visitors, and HEI (Hawaiian Electric Incorporation) monopolizes 3 of the 4 power grids to constrict application of clean energy. Aim now is to develop green motor systems for watercrafts and maritime applications for Blue economy; ultimately building/converting a fleet of 'Green' vessels to remove the plastics & debris from oceans and shores.