Long Road

My Journey

I picked up a guitar at 12. By the time I was in college I was writing songs — real ones, the kind that meant something. Then life happened the way it does. Six kids, a career in technology, decades of building things for other people.

The music never left. It just waited. At 68, retired, I discovered AI music tools. All those patterns I’d been playing on guitar for fifty years, all those songs sitting in notebooks — suddenly I had a way to finish what I started.

This isn’t AI making music. This is me, finally making music, with AI as my instrument.

Music patiently waited through decades.

Many Thanks to:
- My Wife Mary, mother of six, my partner in business and life
- My Six children Michelle, Catherine, Amanda, Jonathan,
Kaitlyn and Meghan for the priviledge of being their father
- My 6 siblings, Danny (deceased), Steve, Ann, Jeanie, Lori and Judy
- My Father Marvin and Jo Anne, we miss you.

Work

Technology Career

Education: BSEE Marquette University

Work Highlights:
- Video Disc Game Hardware and Game design
- Started Image Computer company with 16M Venture Capital
- Developed AI Driven Image Editing Packaged Software
- Product Markets Director for iOS Password Manager
- Agency Technical PM and UX for 50+ mobile apps / websites.
- Owner of DPA Software development company
- 7 Patents

Music Revival

Long Road Music

Using AI tools to develop songs and share stories.
- Suno AI
- Chat GPT

Eric Look Band - Bass Player, with my daughter Michelle, sister Jeanie and grandson Zander and others @ Summerfest Milwaukee

Jeanie, Dave and Zander - Playing Covers for disabled community

Dave playing with Michelle (piano teacher) and Meghan (Intergenerational vilionist)