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Bio: Began study of electronics and technology in 1968 as a school boy. My older brother was into electronics and I was determined to compete with him in this arena. This seemed to be the only thing at the time that I had any chance, he being 6 years older was getting ready to join the Navy and I was still in middle school. After completing High School early, I joined the USAF while still 17 and qualified as an Electronic Warfare Communications Technician. One of many areas of work that was covered by security clearance and made us happy to tell others that we worked on stuff too secret to tell anyone about.
Many years later I went through a refresher course in college to reinforce my understanding of digital electronics and computer functionality. I was fortunate enough to get the Computer Science Student of the Year for the 1989-1990 school year. I graduated with a 3.96 GPA and went into business band radio communications service. This lead to a job with a start-up company named Claircomm Communications. This was a subsidiary of McCaw Cellular, the parent of Cell One and eventually became AT&T Wireless, with our portion being AT&T Aviation Communications Division, and I was the North American Field Operations Manager for them. Seemed like very big business for a kid growing up in a suburb of Roseburg Oregon, best known for its Goat Crossing warning sign on Interstate 5, midway between Eugene and Grantspass.
From there I took a position with another start up called, eventually, Norcomm Communications; Norcomm was a data service provider that began as a X.25 Data service across the M-Sat Satellite based over North America and specifically the USA. All these jobs used the digital course work that I had acquired at college in the 1988-1990 time frame. As time went on I was growing in pay and responsibility in the company. The Last job I had was as the Quality Assurance Director and called on digital analog and manufacturing knowledge that I had learned across the forty years of work across many varied job functions.
Along with knowledge and education in those years I also had an injury to my spine that had caused me to have five major operations prior to becoming disabled. That disability and the dot com implosion lead to me being released from my position. I don't think that the business had any other choice, I received a six figure income and was working about 25 hours a week. I had earned the income bu working about 60 hours a week and providing high quality work, with the disability I could not do either at the time.
I've had three surgeries since that time and am doing better. I have continued to try consulting work throughout this entire time, not making a profit, but keeping my mind and heart alive was what I really took from this activity. Right now I am working on designing a new energy system that will hopefully be a commercial service that home owner can use to eliminate their current electric bill. I believe in the Distributed Power Model of the future of electric power delivery in the world. With this model, the electricity can be developed locally and used either locally complete or locally and remotely; using all needed locally and sending some extra power to close, but remote users. That way some users can get a portion of their power from several of their neighbors. -
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