Michael Faller:  

Hi Friends, After BW, I went to WVU where I received a BA in Psych in 1977. I worked in that field for 3 years near Philadelphia. Then, I went back to WVU where I received a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1985. I moved to the Boston Region in 1985 saying that I'd give it 3 years. Well, I'm still near Boston. Roots developed and it is a nice area. I dislike the winters but they have been getting milder. My retirement will start here with a TBD attitude about the future. Along the way, I took other classes on technical topics. I enjoy understanding how communications systems worked. In 2011,. I received my masters in Information Assurance from Northeastern University in Boston. I enjoyed the interactive nature of the program and I miss it. I work as a senior principal systems engineer (network engineer) for General Dynamics, Basically, I have been with the same company and people since 1985. As a DoD contractor, I support the subject of secure voice and data terminals. I married in 1985 and have a daughter (born 1987) and a son (born 1992). I have come to discover how time consuming parenting is. But, as I watch them grow older, I started to wish they wouldn't. Time passes far too quickly. You never stop being a parent and time still passes too quickly. My wife of 38 years, Andrea, somehow manages to put up with me ;-) Normally, I returned to Cumberland/Ridgeley at least once a year to visit my mother. However, she passed away 2/14/2010 leaving no family in the area. Though, my extended family owns a campsite near Canaan Valley that I hope to get back to once a year will bring me through Cumberland. Then, something really unusual happened. My daughter, a wildlife biologist that has trained and worked in probably a dozen states through career, started working for ...Expand for more