David Fernandes:  

Life Graduated from Mass Maritime in 1996 (Engineer). While at school sailed with the school ship to some neat places. (Barbodos, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canary Islands, Holland, Ireland, Scotland & Spain). Junior year had that opportunity to sail with an LNG company and bounced back and forth between Indonesia and Japan for a couple months. Went to work straight out of school for GE as an international field engineer in the power systems division. Bounced all around the US and spent a fair bit of time in Saudi Arabia, Argentina, England and Italy. Met my wife Amy while with GE, and as the song goes "the road ain't no place to start a family". We were married and lived in Saratoga Springs NY for a while, a great place if you have never been (J.Fuller, M. Masone were in the wedding ... P.Staffier, J.Wood & C.Pare were there at the wedding to celebrate with us). After getting off the road (Summer 2001) we relocated to take a job at GE Power Systems headquarters in Atlanta GA. It was a fun place for a short stint ( ~ 1 year). Lots of great friend there. In 2002 we relocated to Savannah GA, took a job with a SEast Utility whom I still work for toda...Expand for more