About Sandy Waters

Henry C. (Sandy) Waters III comes from a line of New Englanders born north of Boston, with ties to Maine and Connecticut. Currently residing in North Carolina, Sandy's background requires quite some time to tell the story to provide context for what he enjoys doing. 

Sandy started as a research technician in the 1960s at a prestigious research company, Perkin-Elmer in Norwalk Connecticut. From bench tech he advanced to Scientist, and then moving to another preeminent research equipment manufacturer, Technicon Instruments, he assumed the duties of a Senior Research Scientist. For a total of twelve years, Sandy developed cutting edge biomedical application of lasers and pattern recognition capabilities, precursors to artificial intelligence, for laboratory equipment opening up new diagnostic vistas for laboratory medicine. Much of his work was characterized as forensic in its nature. The goal always was to seek to understand how things work, and the significance of findings resulting from researching questions.

He traveled extensively throughout the world sharing the research findings with other scientist and medical practitioners. He holds patents on some biological testing a preservation methods, as well as having co-authored scientific papers in peer reviewed journals, while engaging with research laboratories worldwide to advance and communicate their results. 

But being a scientist, he discovered new things of interest to himself, one being computers and communications. From another dozen years spent crafting and selling computer and communications solutions with Nortel, Digital Equipment Corporation, and WilTel, he found his next interesting topic, working in government information management. With a rich business and technical background he brought to the government new methods of streamlining business resulting in several breakthroughs in information collection and handling, pioneering through joint government and private sector ventures, his agency, the National Technical Information Service a Department of Commerce agency, developed an  accurate whole government information search service for locating hard to find technical, economic, and scientific information together with Northern Light, a search engine provider. Sandy was instrumental in supporting government efforts to license government developed intellectual property for commercialization in the private sector.

Additionally, Sandy crafted joint ventures to produce the first search service of its kind for use in government, that could accurately locate information in foreign languages from English query requests, then translate contextually, and present the information side by side for review by people seeking to analyze such search requests but without native language skills. 

Today Sandy spends considerable time traveling with Beatriz the love of his life, and writing business performance improvement books, science fiction stories, and humorous anecdotes of his memories throughout his life. He also edited and republished books originally written by his grandfather, a historian of some note chronicling the growth of small towns in and around Whitefield Maine, the site of the family summer farm. 

Beatriz and Sandy are on a mission together learning new things regardless of their age.