Chuck Chandler:  

Being a Military Brat I only spent 3 years in Tucson but have many fond memories from those I played basketball with and against, in fact one became my brother in law. After HS I played some ball on a scholorship at Oregon State and studied Mechanical Engineering and moved to Pasadena, CA. for a few years I got married and took graduate Math classes at CSULA and after a few years I figured out I didn't want to work in an office as a mechanical engineer any longer went to a trade school to become a Machinist. After figuring out LA wasn't my kind of town moved to Seattle for half a dozen years. I got divorced and married again and worked my way into a management position for a startup company who did an IPO. The CEO from that company moved to Silicon Valley to take a new position running a Laser Company and brought me along. Holding a number of Engineering and Manufacturing management positions I eventually became an Executive of that company that went public in 1999 at the height of the dot com bubble, Interesting enough one of the divisions I...Expand for more