About the crazy Author
Eric Cutright’s “day job” is being a safety consultant and safety assessor for the rail and mass transit industry, both designing systems and performing detailed hardware and software safety analyses on advanced computer-based train control systems such as Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) for the NYCT Metro in New York City and various Positive Train Control (PTC) systems for the US rail industry. He was a co-founder of Rail Safety Consulting (now part of TUV Rheinland) and holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering (EE) from the University of Virginia. Eric was also just one pesky class away from an undergraduate minor in Archaeology at the University of Virginia (summer fieldwork that would have been AMAZING but would simply not fit into his EE summer research schedule). He thoroughly enjoys serving as the Scoutmaster of Scouts BSA Troop 1029 (girls) in Charlottesville, Virginia – a truly remarkable group of young women, siblings, and parents.
Eric’s fondest career wish is to have writing (and illustrating!) more Cartouche Chronicles become his “day job,” and to inspire young readers to ditch their device screens every now and then to experience the joy of reading books just for fun. There is also still so much we can learn from our fascinating past, so he hopes to foster more interest in the amazing world of archaeology and history all around us. He dreams someday of having a heroic action figure made of him (with some cool archaeologist and PDA/romance police accessories) for his inspiring and often challenging and underappreciated role as “bad joke Dad” in the Cartouche Chronicles.
Eric lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his lovely wife Marsha, occasionally hosting four amazing and ever-entertaining teenage(+) boys Kyle (youngest), Eagle Scout Marc, Luke, and Eagle Scout Alec (oldest), plus an assortment of creatures including grey tabby super-skittish cat Calvin (a.k.a. half of the crazy Sloth and Chunk duo in CC2 - we lost his brother Hobbes since CC2, along with Eleven and Yoda from CC1), tiny rescued kitty troublemaker Pixie (meet her as Leeloo in CC3!), a dazzling leopard gecko Lenny, and an ever-changing variety of other visiting critters (e.g. snakes, turtles, newts, dragons, frogs, and even the occasional makhluq alwasi) at any given time.
P.S. Eric's awesome galaxy ASIM cartouche and LOST tattoos by Ben Miller 2018 and 2020, Ben Around Tattoos, Charlottesville, VA
Eric’s fondest career wish is to have writing (and illustrating!) more Cartouche Chronicles become his “day job,” and to inspire young readers to ditch their device screens every now and then to experience the joy of reading books just for fun. There is also still so much we can learn from our fascinating past, so he hopes to foster more interest in the amazing world of archaeology and history all around us. He dreams someday of having a heroic action figure made of him (with some cool archaeologist and PDA/romance police accessories) for his inspiring and often challenging and underappreciated role as “bad joke Dad” in the Cartouche Chronicles.
Eric lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his lovely wife Marsha, occasionally hosting four amazing and ever-entertaining teenage(+) boys Kyle (youngest), Eagle Scout Marc, Luke, and Eagle Scout Alec (oldest), plus an assortment of creatures including grey tabby super-skittish cat Calvin (a.k.a. half of the crazy Sloth and Chunk duo in CC2 - we lost his brother Hobbes since CC2, along with Eleven and Yoda from CC1), tiny rescued kitty troublemaker Pixie (meet her as Leeloo in CC3!), a dazzling leopard gecko Lenny, and an ever-changing variety of other visiting critters (e.g. snakes, turtles, newts, dragons, frogs, and even the occasional makhluq alwasi) at any given time.
P.S. Eric's awesome galaxy ASIM cartouche and LOST tattoos by Ben Miller 2018 and 2020, Ben Around Tattoos, Charlottesville, VA
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