Blair Johnson:  

Married, no kids. We live in West Seattle. Retired from Boeing at the end of March 2023, after being a planner/scheduler there for 18 years. The first two programs I worked on at Boeing involved manned ground vehicles for the Army, and then commercial satellite launches. The program I worked on for the final 8 years at Boeing was VC-25B, the 747-8 planes that will replace the current Air Force One 747-200 planes. Prior to Boeing, I worked at Todd Shipyard for 15 years, holding a number of positions, starting on the tools as a shipfitter, then running the Accuracy Control program for the construction of the three Jumbo Mark II ferries, then into Quality Assurance, and finally planning and scheduling. In the 1980's, I jumped back and forth between working on the tools in the shipyards, trying to play keyboards in hard rock cover bands ("trying" being the operative word there), and driving a taxi. And unlike in my High School days, I was a total stoner in the 1980's. (Guess I felt I had to make up for lost time.) In the 1970's I received my Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design from the UW Departme...Expand for more