Page 4 - MY STORY

that fade with time, or at best, be distorted by desire so

that the “true” picture may never emerge. Some of the
key players may now be dead, retired, inept or simply lost
track of. I truly do not know how most engineers feel

about the satisfaction their accomplishments brought to
the human experience, but from my perch overlooking
life from the initial vantage point of a ten-year-old it turns

out that I feel pretty darn good about it.

In most of my job experiences, there was seldom a day of

boredom. The challenges and execution of technical
development, problem-solving, new technology

application to products, and managing a wide array of
talented (and sometimes very unique) people seem to stay
strong in memory even now. I am sure that some of the
physical occurrences presented have been softened or

made somewhat inaccurate with the passing of time and
aging of memory cells. but even then it’s pretty damned

close! I will probably never know if anyone will ever read
this stuff, but that isn’t important for now. For me, it’s just
a matter of documenting fond, or at least interesting,

events that helped to shape my professional life as I
approach the end game. I think that the desire to do this
may have started when I wrote some tidbits of my

professional relationship with one of my early bosses, Joe