Author

Bart is a writer, photographer, inventor, and consulting Professional Engineer based in South Louisiana.  He served over 34 years in the US Army, Active and Reserve, enlisted and officer, including as a Sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division up to a Lt. Colonel engineer officer in Afghanistan.  His engineering work include forensics, subsea, aerospace, failure analysis, equipment design, medical systems, and biomechanics.  He really likes explosives. In the last decade he has become increasingly involved with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. As a non-fiction author, he spent a decade as a journalist as a writer and photographer.  Bart has over 40 professional publications as an engineer, was the Editor-in-chief for a peer-reviewed forensic engineering journal, and is a peer reviewer for a number of publications.  This led to leading a forensic engineering team investigating OceanGate and the Titan Submersible design on behalf of the US Coast Guard as well as an occaisional media commentator.  Since his retirement from the Army he has returned to his first love, fiction, with multiple contributions published in Raconteur Press and Three Ravens Publishing, as well as returning to black & white fine art photography