Raymond Pairan: Author of Science Fiction Novels

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Raymond Pairan Jr. refrains from adding the "Jr." suffix because he views it as superfluous and prefers to be known simply as Ray Pairan or Raymond Pairan. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he spent most of his childhood in Miami, Florida. He currently lives in Ogden, Iowa, with his wife, Diana. A quiet, shy intellectual who never seeks notoriety, he enjoys the simple life, pounding away on his computer keyboard writing Sci-Fi novels, camping, landscape photography, singing, baking, and cooking.

From 1979 - 1987, Raylan was the Frontman for the alt-rock group  Zillias, playing primarily in renowned South Florida Miami area clubs.  Zillias was similar in style to Duran Duran and Depeche Mode, verging on  alternative, with venues in the more avant-garde club scene, such as  Club Deco-1235 (Miami Beach), Casanovas (Hialeah), Club Nu (Miami Beach),  and Facade (Miami). 

After graduating from Northern Kentucky University in 1995 with a BS in Economics and a concentration in accounting, while working full-time for Cincinnati Central Credit Union, Ray was quickly thrust into the publishing industry as a Production Coordinator at Day Dream Publishing in Indianapolis, Indiana. 

Always having an aptitude for programming since taking a high-school after-class Fortran programming course, he was immediately shifted to programming production systems. After a few years, Ray went on to program accounting systems at Howard W. Sams and Macmillan Publishing in Indianapolis, Indiana, both prominent book publishers at the time.

Many years elapsed, and Ray further expanded his programming skills into Software Engineering for aerospace systems, using advanced languages like Java and C++ to develop fail-safe, critical, and fault-tolerant AI systems for firms such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Leidos. For Boeing at Huntington Beach, California, he designed and developed the System of Systems AI - Future Combat System (FCS) in 2007, which was a forerunner in early AI military systems.

Even during his programming years, Ray would work into the night writing essays for his blog and his two websites. Burning out from writing political and economic-based essays, Ray decided in 2008 to try his hand at writing a Sci-Fi novel, Zalon Kingdom - The Invaders Arrive.

From 2011 - 2012, Ray Pairan (a.k.a. Raylan Cooper) focused on recording  new music in the studio and getting it on the radio, such as "Radio  Roquette Pinto 94.1 FM" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Latvia Public  Media. Raylan earned a 5-STAR rating on Music2Deal. Raylan was regularly  featured on WPRK's Local Heroes, a radio show on 91.5 FM (Orlando)  every Wednesday from 5 pm-7 pm, also played on 91.5 FM in the greater  Orlando, Florida, area. Raylan was the Featured Artist for seven days on  MyCountrySpace. Raylan held the #1 Vocalist position on Music2Deal.  Traditional Country Music Hall of Fame recipient and President of Colt  Records, J. K. Coltrain, asked Raylan to attend the 7th Country Star  Showcase at the renowned Limelight in Nashville. Rudolf Dahlinger with  RCD Music Records in Germany gave Raylan 5 stars on Music2Deal (the  international music industry nexus), saying that his rendition of "I'll  Still Be Loving You" was a "beautiful rendition of this country song..."

When he was laid off in May 2020 from Infosys as a Senior Technology Architect during COVID, Ray founded his own company, Pairan Technology, to develop revolutionary standalone Java applications. After a year of 12-14-hour days spent developing these systems, he was determined never to write a line of programming code again. One quiet night, Ray resolved to devote his remaining years to authoring Sci-Fi novels.

Ray Pairan is the author of Zalon Kingdom - The Invaders Arrive, Saldora, Silence on the Plains, Edge of Universe - Zalon Kingdom Series, Escape from Planet Qualish - Zalon Kingdom Series, The Road to Microservice Architecture, and Freedom Inequality and Decency (a collection of his best essays).

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