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Not much to tell really.
Born in Decatur, IL. On July 5th 1963. Moved to Matoon, IL when I was 3 years old. Moved again to Quincy, IL when I was five. I remember the large barges and steamboats that plyed the mighty Mississippi when I was young. The midwest is a good place to grow up.
Moved again when I was in the third grade. This time to Grand Blanc, MI. where my parents still reside. Started flying on April 23, 1979 and have always considered aviation the greatest thing in my life.
Graduated High School in 1981. Spent two years at Mott College and then entered the service. Military Police School after Basic training, ended up guarding "Nukes" for my entire term of service. ETS in January 1986 (Echo Tango Suitcase) and went back to college with money earned in the Military. Seems like a long time ago now. Ron Reagan was running the country and the prosperity I saw after I left the military was very reassuring.
Worked at "The software house" while attending college and then got a job for a manufacturers rep. Selling Unix, VME cards and full systems for Motorola. Department of Defense was our biggest customer and business was great until 1990. Then the bottom fell out. Worked for a year at Network General selling Network management software tools and then decided...well… I'm going to fly airplanes for a living.
I was a full time flight instructor flying over 100 hours a month. Built my time up in four years to over 5000 hours between instruction, charter, corporate and personal flying. Got to fly some neat airplanes while doing this (Cheyenne IIIA, King Air C90 and Cessna 310). Also taught ground school twenty-eight times in a row...which I now really enjoy.
Went to work for a WAN/LAN integrator in 1995 after deciding that I really could not make any money in aviation. The major airlines were not hiring and it looked like I would have to move to do any serious charter or flying.
The integrator I worked for was purchased by Frontier Communications in 1997 and my son was born the week we moved over to their offices. Great job, good money and the technology is interesting. WAN/Internet is the place to be right now. Left Frontier for Williams Communications Solutions in 1998 and have never looked back.
Currently flying part-time and raising my son with wife Brigitte. Life is good.
Thanks for visiting my homepage!
BRN
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