Charles E. Dike joined the Navy to see the world and joined the Church just as he was being discharged after six years of active service. He attended BYU and received a BSEE in 1977, then while raising a family, completed an MSEE degree (1984). He spent roughly thirty-five years in design and research of integrated circuits. Much of his later work entailed on-chip security for microprocessors. He retired in 2014 and has been exploring technical details in scriptures since then with his primary focus on the Book of Mormon.