Robert L. Wernli Sr

Robert Wernli Sr. is an international expert in the technology that weaves throughout his first two novels, Second Sunrise and Sunrise Cartel; he has chaired eighteen international conferences in related technology in the United States, Canada, Scotland, Norway, Taiwan, China, and Japan. In Pop-Up, he spins off his investigative reporter in those two novels, Sam Brashly, for his own thriller along the US/Mexico border. He holds mechanical engineering degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and San Diego State University. A former navy-qualified diver, he has spent his career developing unmanned underwater robotic vehicles and work systems. Recently retired from a navy research center in San Diego, California, he now works as a consultant in underwater robotics and technology as president of First Centurion Enterprises. He has coauthored two nonfiction works: a comprehensive book on CD-ROM on underwater vehicles, Operational Effectiveness of Unmanned Underwater Systems and the recently released second edition of The ROV Manual. He lives in San Diego, California, with his wife, Beverley.