Michael Hebert:  

I became a Taoist/Buddhist shortly after I came Hong Kong in January 1978 and still practice after 32 years. Graduated from HKIS June 1980, moved to Hemet, CA to live with Grandparents, go to Mount San Jacinto College and work for Harris & Co. department store. June 1981 went to Hong Kong to visit Donald Carl and family for 3 weeks. Then I moved back to Cupertino, CA family home. Dad said if you go to school you can live here for free or pay $200 a month if you plan on working only. I got my first job in Silicon Valley, at Vindicator Corp. assisted in running the Wave Solder machine and performed 2nd assembly and inspection of printed circuit boards. 4 months later I interviewed at a company called Compower but I didn't get the job. Then 2 months later I tried Compower again and was hired as a Power Supply Repair Technician, However they didn't have a bench for me, So I worked in the stockroom for the next 3 weeks. They were moving from Campbell, CA to San Jose, CA. The big move came and I finally got my bench to work at fixing power supplies. By Oct 1982 I was offered a position in the Engineering Lab as Research & Development Technician. I worked directly with the V.P. of Engineering George Tuma on several power supply projects until May 1984 when I became Test Engineer by default, managing the construction our own Automated Test Equipment and performing field service of them in Hong Kong, Ireland, Mexico, South Korea and the U.S.A. I remained in the position of Test Engineer until Sep 1987, when I left Compower to pursue a career as a Independent Electronics Contractor. In the past 23 years I have contracted with SUN Microsystems WSD, Siemens Optoelectronics, Watkins-Johnson SEG, Technical Instr- ument Co., Photon Dynamics, Ultra Stereo Labs, Digital Power, AmPro, PI SQUARED, Power Conversion America, KLA-Tencor, Computer Products NAD, LUMISYS and a whole bunch of little companies, as a non-degreed Elec...Expand for more