Personal Experience Summary

Dr. Turnock received the Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1954. He has had over 25 years in the fields of scientific and engineering computations, operations research, communications engineering, and systems engineering and management.

He joined The Analysic Sciences Corporation (TASC) in June 1980. As a member of the Washington Systems Engineering Division, he worked in the Communcations and Signal Processing Department in the area of software engineering. He also performed a comprehensive mathematical analysis of parts of the PRIME computer system aimed at improving the documentation of the system.

Prior to joining TASC, he was a Senior Systems Analyst with the American Communications Corporation. There he performed systems analysis studies for the TRIDENT submarine command and control system. This included engineering analyses, probabilistic and statistical computations, mathematical modeling, and extensive computer simulations.

At NASA Headquarters, as Deputy Director (Programs) of the Apollo Program, he was involved in all aspects of manned space flight. In addition to assisting the Director in the overall management of the program, in which he played a lead role in establishing the Apollo configuration management and interface control systems, he was responsible for all Apollo science activities: in-flight experiments, lunar surface experiment packages, landing site selection, and the establishment of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory. He also served Manned Space Flight as Director of Communications and Tracking and Director of Systems Integration and managed an extensive advanced computer study with the objective of determining the data processing systems, on-board and ground-based, which would be required to satisfy future needs.

As Director of Applied Science in the IBM Federal Office, he was responsible for applied science, special systems and equipment, and the education center. He also directed the IBM Space Computing Center where, under contract with NRL and later NASA, all space satellites were tracked prior to the establishment of the Goddard Space Flight Center. Named IBM Manager for Project Mercury, he was responsible for all IBM technical and business activities in the program. IBM's roles were: the installation of large scale computing systems at Goddard, the Bermuda tracking site, and the mission controal center; formulation and coding of the real-time mission control programs; design and implementation of the high-speed data flow system; and checkout, by computer, of the world-wide tracking network.

At the University of Chicago's Institute for Air Weapons Research, he developed mathematical models for use in studies of air weapons and aerial warfare techniques. He instructed in mathematics at the University of Illinois for several years and served as a B-29 navigator in World War II and as Command Navigator, Northeast Air Command, during Korea.