Roger Dendy:
CLASS OF 1982
Thunderbird High SchoolClass of 1982
Phoenix, AZ
Roger's Story
Life
I graduated from ASU with a BS in Electrical Engineering in Â86. With no immediate job offers, I bounced around for a few months, and made a little money by substitute teachingÂincluding days at Greenway (taught calculus), Apollo (where I ran into Mr. Forsman), and Thunderbird.
In early Â87, I moved to Riverside, CA, where I worked for the US Navy on several projects, including satellite data links from ship to shore. Mary Beth Weaver worked there also. The highlight there came when, at the end of a fleet exercise in the Gulf of Alaska, our group was taken by helicopter off the destroyer to an aircraft carrier, then flown off the carrier to shore. In all, I was on two destroyers, one amphibious command ship, five aircraft carriers, and got two catapult launches (no traps).
Got married there in 1990, and took a honeymoon in Eastern Europe (the time seemed right).
In 1991, I moved to...Expand for more
Cleveland, where I worked at NASA (as a contractor) on a satellite project which was launched on the space shuttle in 1993. I worked with researchers using the satellite for a variety of experiments, including remotely controlling an astronomical observatory, relaying sea-bed seismologic data from an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, and providing live video for a robotic volcano exploration in Alaska. I also did my own experiment, which became the basis for my MasterÂs thesis, which I finished in 1998 (MSEE, Cleveland State).
We had two kids (boy & girl, now 12 and 10), then moved back to Arizona in 1998. I live in a historic district in central Phoenix with my wife and kids and dog.
I came to Motorola to work on satellite projects, which soon crashed and burned, some literally. Since then IÂve been working on cellular broadband base stations, so you can watch YouTube on your cell phone.
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