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BIOGRAPHY - Dr. Andrew Motes
Andrew Motes was born in Newport, Arkansas in 1954 -- the
son of poor, white sharecroppers. He graduated from high
school in 1972 in a small rural community called Tuckerman.
In 1973 he entered the US Air Force. After graduating from
Electronics Technical School at Chanute Air Force Base,
Illinois he was assigned to Blytheville Air Force Base,
Arkansas. There he served as Missile Electronic Equipment
Specialist for the Strategic Air Command's 97th Bomb Wing.
In August 1974 Airman Motes received an Air Force
Scholarship to the University of Arkansas. He graduated
from the U. of A. in 1978 with a BS degree in Electrical
Engineering and was then commissioned as a Lieutenant in the
U.S. Air Force. He was then assigned to the Air Force
Institute of Technology (AFIT) at Dayton, Ohio to study
Electrical Engineering with a specialty in Aircraft and
Spacecraft Navigation, Guidance and Control. He graduated
from this institution in 1979 and received his Master's
Degree in Electrical Engineering.
After graduation at AFIT Lieutenant Motes was then assigned
to Hill Air Force Base, Utah as Officer-In-Charge of the
Range Instrumentation Unit and then the Munitions Test Unit.
In these positions he was responsible for testing all the
bombs and rocket motors in the Air Force Inventory.
From June 1982 to May 1983 Captain Motes was assigned to the
US Air Force Academy, Colorado as Instructor of
Astronautical Engineering. From May 1983 to May 1984 he
served as Director of Astronautical Engineering Laboratories
at the Academy.
After receiving a scholarship to the University of New
Mexico to study for his doctorate in Electrical Engineering
with a specialty in Lasers and Electro-optics he was
transferred to Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. He
attended school full-time for two and a half years and was
then reassigned to the US Air Force Academy to do full-time
optics research. In the spring of 1987 he received his
Doctorate in Electrical Engineering.
Major Motes served as Deputy Director of Lasers and
Aerospace Mechanics at the Air Force Academy's Frank J.
Seiler Research Laboratories until the fall of 1990. He was
then assigned to the Air Force Space Division in Los
Angeles, California. For a short time he was assigned as
Optics and Controls Project Manager for the Starlab program.
He was then assigned as Chief of the Engineering Division
for the SDI (Star Wars) Surveillance Satellite Program. He
served in this position until July of 1992.
In July 1992 Dr. Motes requested and was granted separation
from the Air Force (He felt his son needed a more stable
environment to grow up in). In August 1992 he became
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at John Brown
University, Siloam Springs, Arkansas. In May 1995 he quit
teaching and became self-employed as a consulting engineer.
Dr. Motes is a licensed professional engineer specializing
in computer data acquisition and process control, digital
and analog electronic design, and custom software design.
Dr. Motes continues to hold the rank of Major in the Air
Force Ready Reserves. He is also a member of the board of
directors for the Educational Software Cooperative, Inc. ( a
trade organization for educational software authors that he
created).
Dr. Motes has been awarded the Air Force Science and
Engineering Award for Engineering Achievement, the Air Force
Meritorious Service Medal three times, and the Air Force
Commendation Medal. In 1983 and 1984 he was selected as one
of the Outstanding Young Men of America. He has published
one book, 16 scientific journal articles, and holds a patent
for a read/write compact laser disk. He also wrote School-
Mom, the award winning children's educational software used
by schools all over the world and sold in retail stores in
North America.
Dr. Motes currently lives in Siloam Springs, Arkansas with
his wife Judy and their son Robert who is 11 years of age.
He would like to make a living writing educational software
but because of the low registration rate for educational
shareware this is not possible. School-Mom is considered a
classic and Dr. Motes is considered a pioneer of educational
shareware. In the eight years that School-Mom has been on
the shareware market it has consistently been on the share-
ware top-ten list. Shareware vendors have sold hundreds
of thousands of trial (shareware) copies; however, in those
seven years, less than 2,500 people have been decent enough
to pay Dr. Motes for his efforts. Because of this, School-
Mom is now distributed as trial-ware rather than shareware.
After the trial period has ended, the program will no longer
work.