I first started to write books after I retired from GE, where I had managed an engineering team. My motivation for writing was a frustration with the available books on Six Sigma. I was trained in Six Sigma at GE, and I felt that it was a valuable methodology whose use was being restricted by its being made unnecessarily difficult. My first book was "Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy." McGraw-Hill agreed to publish it. When that book started to sell well, McGraw-Hill asked me to write two more books on Six Sigma.
I loved writing. I had a strong interest in the economy, and I believed that the 2004 economy was not as healthy as being publicly presented and that we were headed for a severe downturn. Using the same data discipline that is taught in Six Sigma, I went to work researching our economy. This research resulted in my book "The Second Great Depression," published by a small publisher. The book sold well, so John Wiley & Sons decided to publish an updated version "The Great Depression of Debt" along with a book I wrote on investing. I also published an illustrated children's book "Laoch the Guide Dog Puppy," based on my experience in raising a guide dog puppy. My most recent book is a fiction mystery novel, "The Child Remover."