I immigrated from Europe (Yugoslavia) to the U.S. in 1952, when I was 3 years old. I became a naturalized citizen after 7 years, and I grew up for the most part in Indianapolis, Indiana. I graduated from Rose-Hulman Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1971 with a BSCE degree with a structural major. I'm 61 years old and been a practicing structural engineer for 39 years. My experience is primarily in heavy industry and manufacturing. I'm a registered PE in 8 states. As far as any past accomplishments worthy of note, many years ago, I developed several PE exam problems which were accepted into the pool of potential NCEE exam problems, highlighted by 5 of them appearing on the April, 1977 NCEE PE exam. Also, I had developed 3 structural engineering plug-in software cards for the HP48 handheld calculator/computer system, which were marketed nationally for me from 1993-2002. Like most, I'm self taught in MS-Excel, and have been programming in it since 2000, porting over many of the works that I had done on the HP48. My hobbies are bass fishing, exercise, watching sports and movies, music, customizing / driving my 2005 Chevrolet SSR convertible pickup truck, and last but not least.....programming.

Interview with Alex Tomanovich Alex talks to John Doyle about his spreadsheets, why he chooses Excel and the approach he takes when setting out a problem. He talks about his employer, Flour, and how he decides what subjects to cover. We discuss the ExcelCalcs repository, its content and the response from users and he tells us why he shares his calculations. Finally we get a chance to thank him on the behalf of all users who have benefited from his talent and his substantial body of work.

Attention Structural Engineers with HP Calculators - Alex develops software for HP hand held calculators if his software is as good as his spreadsheets they will be essential items to all Structural Engineers. Click here for details.