James McCracken:  

Life My first career was teaching science, along with coaching football and basketball. After teaching for nine years, I got a PhD from Ohio State. I have been doing human factors engineering for 18 years, including three years in the vaunted Silicon Valley of California. The highlight of my time in California was living in in a cabin in the Santa Cruz Mountains accessable only via 4wD. I lived in the redwoods with the bobcats, deer and mountain lions - solar electric, wood stove heat and water from a spring 300 feet up the mountain. The creek that had to be forded to get to the cabin flowed six- eight feet deep and ran about 30 MPH during rainy season. This required access to the cabin via a swinging bridge built of elevator cable, hanging 30 feet over the canyon floor!! Just eight miles from the San Andres fault and 10 miles from Monterey Bay, forest fires and earthquakes kept things hopping. College I received my BSED in Comprehensive Science from Ohio University, qualifying me to teach all secondard science subjects. I was a founder and the first president of the Ohio University men's volleyball club. My MEd is in Natural Science from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. My PhD is from The Ohio State University. It is unusual in that I took a multidiscip...Expand for more