Who Am I?

My name is Drake Dameräu, although my friends call me "Doc" and I live in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Born and raised in Detroit, I lived in Seattle for a couple of years, and then moved to northeast Pennsylvania in 1998. I am " Married With Children." I don’t suppose I need to tell you about my hobbies, except that among the obvious, hockey rules and camping is cool when I can bring a telescope. I love to build telescopes. My largest to date is an award winning university-grade 20" f5.

I work at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, operated by General Dynamics. We make artillery shells for the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and a few rounds for NATO. We produce every thing from the 105 mm M1 HF1 for the Air Force's AC130U "spooky" gunship and 120mm mortars, to the 155mm M795 high fragmentation round and the 155mm M107 for the Howitzer. (Yes they still use the Howitzer.)

I am the Chief Metallurgist, and the Laboratory Director (that means I run the lab ;-)) at General Dynamics. I specialize in failure analysis, but I am also responsible for heat treating processes and all material specifications and testing.

I became a Master Mason and member of the Factoryville lodge #341 in April of 2000. I am also a member of ASM, and the ASM affiliate societies of HTS and IMS, SAE Aerospace and ASTM. I am on the ASTM Technical Committee E28 for mechanical testing.

I'm also a member of NEPRA locally, Tripoli Rocketry Association and National Rocketry Association nationally, and am Level 3 certified. I serve as a NAR L3CC Member as well.

My personal webpage can be found at http://home.sprynet.com/~monel/.