Mike Peterson:  

Life I met my beautiful Filipina wife, Maricel, while I was working in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 1994. She was working as a nurse there when we met. In Oct. '95, we returned to Tucson and were married in a beautiful outdoor ceremony. Our daughter, Mikayla, was born in 2000. As for pets, we've had our cat "Bud-Bud" since we adopted him, while in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, in 1996. He's a big (22 pound) Bombay, which is a breed created to look like a miniature black Panther. He's a big baby though, and very vocal. Mike is still working in his Macintosh/PC consulting business (Macintosh Assistance Center), and Maricel is working as a Hemodialysis Nurse here in Tucson. We recently bought a new house, and are busy fixing it up. Mike acquired a black '99 Chevy Tahoe 4x4 in 2003. He then proceeded to make it into his version of a "Tahoe SS". It's got a custom "Ram-Air" hood, 20 inch wheels/tires, and lots of little touches to make it look as if the factory actually made an "SS" in '99. This included removal of all the facotry trim and the additoon of red "SS" emblems as seen on the Chevelle SS's of the early '70's. Maricel had to get a new vehicle at Christmas time 2004, so she got her "dream vehicle", a 2004 Chrysler Pacifica. We like to take lots of driving trips around our beautiful state of Arizona, when time permits. Workplace After High School, I worked as a jeweler for Gold Art Creations and Hacineda del Oro jewelers in Scottsdale. Following the death of my Grandfather in late 1974, I returned to school, at the Academy of Drafting in Tempe, AZ. Upon graduation in 1976, I took a position as an Electronics Draftsman for a small job-shop in Tempe. I was laid-off from my job there on the Bicentennial 4th of July, and after considering my options, enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. I worked on F-15 Avionics, Radar, and Test Equipment in the Air Force, and was stationed at Luke AFB (near Glendale, AZ), and at Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan. After leaving the Air Force in December 1980, I returned to Phoenix where I worked two jobs for a while, one for MHZ Electronics, the other as a Test Technician for Sperry Flight Systems in Deer Valley. In 1981, I was hired by Bendix Test Systems Division, and performed my first work as a Product Support Engineer, installing Test Equipment for the F-15 Eagle fighter at Luke AFB Arizona. Upon completion of that project, I relocated to the NY/NJ area, where Bendix's plant was located (Teterboro, NJ). I lived in Greenwood Lake and Spring Valley New York, Garfield and Clifton/Patterson NJ. I stayed with Bendix (later Allied Signal) for three years, during which time I traveled to numerous F-15 bases world-wide as part of their Field Service group, including my old Air Force duty station in Okinawa, Japan. I never did like living "back east", so I interviewed with, and was hired in 1984 by Hughes Aircraft in El Segundo, CA. I...Expand for more