User:RonHalifax

Ron is a 50+ year resident of Florida and worked as a professional electronics design engineer, software design engineer and engineering technical writer/educator during these past 5-decades. In his professional engineering career he has also researched, written, illustrated and published more than 200 engineering technical books and computer related equipment user guides. Ron is currently a local web developer with over 35 websites to his credit and a book publisher. Throughout his life Ron has advanced his knowledge working with graphic art design and advanced graphics software incorporating these skills and keen eye for detail into his projects. Ron always says, “You must understand the problem before you can fix the problem…”

In early 2006, Ron wrote his first account of local history “Our Place in History – Ormond Beach, Florida” and dedicated it to Don Bostrom, the past President of the Ormond Beach Historical Trust. Following this endeavor, having researched our local history in depth, Ron wrote and published “John Anderson, His Life and Times in Ormond, Florida.” My wife Alice and I knew we were on the road to success when Don Bostrom, grandson of Ormond Beach, Florida founder - John Andrew Bostrom,  proclaimed publicly, at a talk at the Ormond Beach Public Library, Ron and Alice are “The Ambassadors of History.”

As an active board member of the Ormond Beach Historical Society and several other local historical organizations, Ron has recently written and co-authored with his wife, Alice, several books and films about Ormond, Daytona and Volusia County history. Ron currently serves on the Volusia County Historical Preservation Board which has enriched his knowledge of local history and provided hands on involvement in Florida history preservation. Since 2006, Ron and Alice have given hundreds of talks and reenactments throughout Volusia and Flagler counties while researching local history and publishing several early Florida history books...