Krishnananda's Background Page

I would like to state right off the top that I am not related in any way to H.H. Sri Swami Krishnananda Saraswati Maharaj, of Rishikesh, nor am I a member of the Divine Life Society, of which he is General Secretary. I am not even a swami, to be sure. As there are other Krishnanandas on the Web, I see no great risk that anyone will confuse me with him; or, if they did, that what I espouse here would cause him any distress.

Here are some photos of me:
Hiking at Dinner Rock (238K)
With the dog (65K)
At Dawson Creek Airport 1 (41K)
At DC Airport 2 (38K)
At DC Airport 3 (38K)
At DC Airport 4 (37K)

Some photos of the west coast of Canada near my home:
Okeover Looking North Towards Desolation Sound Marine Park (90K)
Looking south toward Dinner Rock on Georgia Straight (37K)

Nationality: Canadian
Language: English
Current Profession: Hermit
Current Main Interests: Film making, yoga, alternative medicine, service work...
Hobbies over the past 25 years: ski mountaineering, cross-country skiing, avalanche control technology, karate, music (piano, cello, flute, synthesizer), Japanese (language and culture), video production, writing.

Professional experience has included:

• Explosives/Mining/Percussion Drilling/Heavy equipment operation
• Fire-fighting (forest fires)
• Laser technology (especially medium power excimer lasers)
• Ultra-high vacuum technology (designing and constructing systems for semi-conductor and ceramic materials synthesis, analysis)
• Electrical engineering and electronics(Penn State University)
• Superconductivity research
• Electron microscopy (STEM, TEM, SEM, X-ray microanalysis, sample preparation)
• Optical microscopy (bright and darkfield, phase contrast, fluorescence, vital staining, immuno-fluorescence assay, photomicrography, etc. etc.)
• Clinical microbiology (blood cultures, urinalysis, parasitology, hematology)
• Computer and Network technology (LAN design and construction, Windows 3.11, '95, NT, NT Server, Novel 4.10, Internet)
• US Patents: #4,885,051 (TEM Sample prep invention, a laser-controlled thinning device)
• Line and Heavy Maintenance of light helicopters including Bell 206B, Eurocopter Astar 350, Robinson R44; heavy transport fixed wing O/H including Boeing 727/737, Lockheed Martin C130 Hercules.

Current Ambitions:

Currently (August 2004) I am doing construction on my land. I hope to have a film studio up and operational by Christmas, but it's going slowly.

Ancient history dept: June 1999: Krishnananda graduates from NLC Aircraft Maintenance Engineering program: Click here to see class photo!

Link to Krishnananda's online journal.

I regret that due to the proliferation of email address-collecting bots I am no longer able to offer my email address here.

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