Terry Valenzano:  

School It's pretty tough for a 60 year old guy to write a bio in less than 4,000 characters. Unless you've led a dull life, too many things get missed. So I'll just provide an update on things until, one of these days, I have the time to write a condensed lifetime in 4,000 words. I'm in Iraq right now, doing my part to help this country get back on it's feet. I've been connected with the Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction project since early 2003 (when I took a week off ostensibly to travel to CA for my mother's 90th Birthday). It's probably the most unbelievably broad and unique project that I've been connected with over my 37 year career in larger project engineering and construction. We've touched more lives (for the good) than any previous reconstruction project and done so throughout the country, with Iraqi engineers and supervisors and Iraqi subcontractors which is another story in itself. I'll be departing Baghdad and the project this week heading back to the UK which I call home right now. There's another project there awaiting me and, more importantly, my family. Due to the situation here I was forced to leave behind when I signed on to run this thing. While I can't wait to get home, I hate to leave here recognizing that so much remains to be done. But I'll leave that to the new team that's recently arrived - they can put their all into it as I have done these past 20 months and leave here feeling as I do now. We did a very good thing for the people of Iraq and now we're doing more. That's all for now.... So now it's almost a year later and I'm still in London, now working to make the metro system faster, more comforatble and safer. Big job, but someone has to do it.. And now three years later and I'm in Angola Africa working to build an LNG plant to ship LNG to the gulf Coast of the US. The plant site is right on the Congo River and almost at the exact location where the Portuguese discoveres and later colonialists landed in 1481. Not so nice is the fact that the Portuguese and others were then instrumental in shipping out over 4 million Angolans to serve as slaves in the western (and some eastern) worlds. My wife Elaine continues to reside in London where we have a flat. I'll be with her every 8 weeks as we move through the year since this project is a camp job with no family status capability. Daughter Couirtney is attending Lehigh University studying Astro-Physics (takes after her Dad) and kids Teri and John both reside in Houston. Teri also works for Bechtel and will soon be married to another John (John Neumann) while son John teaches and has his own multi-media company. We're all healthy and mostly happy (living w...Expand for more