john petrilli:  

It's difficult to write a 45 year biography using several paragraphs. After graduating Central in 1967, I attended the University of Pittsburgh. I was very lucky to draw a high number in the draft lottery and avoided Vietnam. I graduated Phi Beta Kappa and received the University'™s MM Culver Award, presented annually to the outstanding Mathematics major. I attended Pennsylvania State University graduate school and received my Master'™s degree in 1973. I then worked at J&L Steel Corporation for 7 years as an Industrial Engineer. I received my degrees only to occasionally work very near coke ovens, blast furnaces and open hearth furnaces wearing a burner's jacket and a hard hat. I relocated to Malibu del Rey, CA in 1980 seeking a brighter future. I worked 32 years there and in Arizona. First at Hughes Helicopters, who was then acquired by McDonnell Douglas who was then acquired by Boeing. Our Culver City location closed in 1986 and the Company re-located me to our new location in Mesa, Arizona. Just some of my positions over this period were: Senior Industrial Engineer, Section Manager Cost & Budgeting, Section Manager Master Scheduling, Manager Program Planning and Department Manager of Industrial Engineering with 150 Industrial Engineers reporting to me through 6 Sectional Managers. I retired in February 2013 after 39 ye...Expand for more