John Moore:  

e back to Albuquerque, New Mexico for another job with Lockheed Martin was given to me. My wife and I jumped at the chance to return back "home" to where we had started out, and we threw our house up for sale on the market, and a couple of weeks later we closed on it, and watched the moving van leave with our household goods. We arrived back to Albuquerque in April of 2002, built our new house, and I started work with my old Air Force unit, only this time as the contractor. I worked at this job until just recently, when I was offered a project manager's position on a different contract here in Albuquerque that I took, as it meant no more extended travel and the position is unique to my career path development as a Program Manager, that I hope to attain within a few more years of schooling (Masters degree) and with the job experience. Otherwise, the last85-years with Lockheed Martin have been exceptional, as I've been promoted three times in five years! Military After Basic Training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas (which, by the way was right in the middle of the hottest part of the year-August), I went to Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi for over 7-months of technical school in electronics. By the time I left Keesler in April of 1989, I was so crammed-full of school that I decided that I would take a break from education until I felt I was ready! Meanwhile I was stationed at Hill AFB, in Utah from 1989 to 1992, enjoying months on end of traveling around the world and working at my new career as a Satellite Communications Journeyman. Basically I deployed with tactical satellite communications equipment, set-up and operated/maintained them during realworld deployments. I continued doing this job through two more assignments over in Germany, and then in 1994 I came back to the U.S. in the fall to live in the Bay Area of California. I loved working and living right there in Sunnyvale, as San Francisco was just under an hour's drive north, and San Jose was just minutes away to the south. Now my job consisted of deploying around the world tracking rocket launches out of Cape Canaveral and Vandenburg AFB in California, and actually testing satellites inside their factories for compatibility with the Air Force's Satellite Control Network. I ended up seeing more of the world, and making essential contacts in a wholy different side of the satellite world that eventually landed me where I am today. However, I moved on to Kirtland AFB, in Albuquerque, New Mexico in early 1997, and continued with the job. Late in 1997, I met my wife, and we married two years later in 1999 on the beach in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina at her parent's home. I left the Air Force in September of 1999 to start my new job with Lockheed Martin back in San Jose, California as a Sr. Systems Engineer on Satellite ground systems. What can I say, I literally walked, ate and slept on all of the continents, except Antarctica - which I've seen from the air, during those 11-years of service, and the experience led me to where I am today!