Wednesday, September 17, 2008

How Xerox Engineering Helped to Save DeWayne McCulley's Life

The following will provide a better understanding and insight into Mr. McCulley's engineering background and how he used that background to shock the doctors and beat the odds, and become The Diabetes Engineer. Hopefully, people will appreciate the power and the gifts that engineering can bring to improving our health and the health of future generations.

During his 30+ year career in engineering with Xerox and Hughes Aircraft, Mr. McCulley had many different jobs. At the time, he didn't understand why he didn't specialize in just one field of engineering; and, how that morphed into this "diabetic engineering".

He was a diagnostic engineer which taught him how to diagnose and troubleshoot complex machines and figure out why they break down. He used his troubleshooting skills to figure out why he was dying.

He was a test engineer which taught him how to test machines, define the critical tests, collect the data, package the data into line, pie and bar charts; analyze the data, and draw conclusions based on those charts and the data. He used that experience to identify the critical blood tests and improve his health, and now uses that experience to help other diabetics understand their own blood glucose data and blood test results.

He was a biochemical engineer which taught him how to understand the biology, pathology, etiology, and pathogenesis of Type 2 diabetes at the cellular level and the system level, as well as understand nutritional science far beyond what nutritionists/dietitians understand at the macro and micro levels. He has expanded this insight into biochemistry to increase his understanding of cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and other systemic health issues. This also helped him to understand how the drugs really affect us, and why various blood/hormonal tests are important -- to show how the drugs are affecting us even when we feel okay.

He was a technical writer which taught him how to write and develop documentation. This helped him design and develop his first book, and is helping him develop his next series of books (a diabetes cookbook, handbook, and bootcamp program).

He was a field engineer which taught him how to answer phone calls from customers and technicians who had broken machines in their offices. He would ask questions and guide the technician to fix the machine. He now uses those same skills to help diabetics who call our wellness center with questions about their diabetes and their health.

He was a training analyst and a product trainer, which taught him how to design training programs and conduct training classes. He is now developing diabetes education programs, and conducting diabetes workshops that people just love.

He was a graphic user interface (GUI) designer which taught him how to design graphics, charts, diagrams, etc. This helps him design effective PowerPoint slides and diagrams for his lectures.

He was a reliability/statistics engineer which taught him how to analyze data to recognize data trends, failure modes of components and their failure rate data to predict when and why a machine would fail and break down. He used that experience to understand epidemiology and disease trends, and why our bodies break down and we become ill.

He was a financial planner for a short time, which taught him the importance of finances and how they impact us. He used that experience to evaluate the healthcare and financial impacts of diabetes.

All of this has helped Mr. McCulley to consider writing a new book about the "illusion of health" and the "insulin addiction trap". These are two critical areas that are sorely misunderstood and is driving a false sense of good health because we either feel good or we don't feel any side effects from the drugs we're taking, even the drugs we think are "good" for us -- such as insulin.

Note: Mr. McCulley's mother (a very spiritual woman) believes it was God guiding him to obtain all of this training to prepare him for this moment -- to help other diabetics and become The Diabetes Engineer.

For more detail, go to www.DeathtoDiabetes.com.

1 comment:

Xerox 6130 toner said...

Hey ,
Sounds great that you know all about your stuff! Its intriguing when you speak to someone who knows what they speak about, as oppose to reciting it from someone else they learned from. I can see you are very experienced and with your credentials it is quite obvious that you will make it far in life, or have already made it far in life :)