Bill Cardarette:  

After high school, I attended Long Beach State. After the spring semester 1965, I decided to take a year off to work and make some money. I went to work for General Telephone on a temporary basis to make some money. Unfortunately, I had forgotten all about the draft. In October, I was invited to go play Army by my friends and neighbors. I went to Fort Polk, for Basic Training. After advanced training, I volunteered (mistake never volunteer) for Airborne School to learn how to jump out of perfectly good airplanes and Army Ranger School. After 2 tours in Viet Nam, I came back to General Telephone (now GTE), in 1968, again with the intent to save some money and then return to school. In 1970, I married Barbara Costello, a 1966 graduate of Saint Paul High School and we moved to Whittier. I went back to school at night and graduated in 1973 with a B.S. degree in Electronic Technology (ET). I stayed with GTE and was promoted a couple of times. I went back to school after being told that a technical degree was not what GTE was looking for long term, I graduated from the University of Redlands with a Degree in Business Administration in 1986. In addition to working at GTE, I was an Adjunct Professor, Golden West College, School of Engineering Technology; Westminster, CA. In 1989, GTE was consolidating Corporate Operations to Texas and my job was moving to Texas. We checked on the availability of park benches to sleep on and dumpsters for food, but unfortunately they were all taken. So we moved to the Dallas Fort Worth Area in Texas. We have adapted well to Texas. In 1993 my group was assigned the project of developing a Cable Television implementation strategy for GTE, we completed in 1994 and started the implementation. In 1994 GTE offered a retirement package and I had a job offer from a vendor from the CATV project. I decided to retire from the "temporary" job at GTE in 1994 (after almost 30 years) and joined General Instrument Corp. as a Senior Sales Engineer. Barb allowed me to take one day off so I wouldn't get used to retirement. In 1997 I took over the Applications Engineering and Sales Support group for the West Area which included everything west of the Mississippi including Asia Pacific. In 2000 Motorola and General Instrument merged. While in Texas, I also was a Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Dept. of Engineering - Professional Development for 6 years. In 2004 three of us from Motorola joined the Asia Pacific Team at C-Cor Broadband Corp. We were responsible for new business development primarily China. In 2007 I moved to the Applications Engineering ...Expand for more