Kenneth Johnson:  

Farmer, Intel R&D, Long Haired, Biker dude... that about sums it up. After HS I went to the Navy. Was in the Naval Nuclear Power Program as an Electronics Tech. I was a Reactor Operator. I went to boot in CA then to A school (electronics) in Illinois. Then to Florida for 9 months Shore Patrol while waiting for my Nuke class to start. Made it through Nuke in Florida. Then went to prototype in Idaho Falls Idaho. Assigned to Gold Crew SSBN Ohio Class Boomer. Left the military without re-enlisting and moved back to Idaho (loved it there). I worked for IC&E there. I went around working on repeaters. My territory was from Boise to Cheyenne and Salt Lake to Dillon Montana. I was laid off when they lost the Burlington Northern Railroad Contract. I had to go back to NM for a while. I went back to LA for a couple years and worked at the Hilltop House and substitute teacher during the days. I then moved to Albuquerque. I then got a job at Ford as a new car salesman. I really did not know what I wanted to do. But I was good at cars and technical knowledge. I gained a bunch of weight while here. Not sure why. But I went up to about 280. Through my friends, I got a job at a large computer company. This was a high tech computer related supplier to the Labs. I quickly moved up and corporate moved me to Phoenix to run the internal computers. My title was something like Senior Computer and Software Support Manager or something crazy like that. I did a lot there. I managed to land a contract with Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. I came up with a method to put all their documents online and made everything paperless. Even their NRC documents. If I had only realized that this was revolutionary in the late 80's! Well that was all going well and I was the only factory trained FrameMaker consultant in the US. The boss was a crook and the company ended up missing payrolls. I left and started my own company as a VAD for Sun. That did not last long as bigger guys could hold the reserve inventory that I could not afford. So I missed out on those large contracts. On top of that, they ended up annexing the the entire backside of my property where my house stood for a new bypass... house value lost 400k and I sold for enough to liquidate the business and pay off the house. I moved back to Albuquerque and applied at a chip manufacturer when they were building a new fab. Made it through the interviews for line workers and they told me that I was way over qualified and that I would never stay there. So I went to work for Motorola as a Robotics Engineering Tech. I worked there for almost 7 years and left just before they sold out to GTE. I stayed there and worked for a little computer shop building PCs... got bored fast. I went to Manpower and worked a bunch of short but high tech jobs. My last job before I left Albuquerque was to wire a bunch of banks with CAT5 and set up the networks and servers... FUN. Somewhere by now I was at about 380 in weight. I went back to school full time at college. Dual major in CS and Technical writing. I worked as a student as a student coordinator for the computer help desk. That was fun! There was nothing more like that in Alb so I got in the car and left for who knows where. I had a big moving sale and sold everything in the house except what was in the van. We still did not know where we were going. Two weeks after deciding to leave, I left and ended up in Oregon. I went to work for a major chemical manufacturer here that made some pretty nasty chemicals for the semiconductor industry such as anhydrous ammonia. NOT nice stuff. I was the Director of IT (temp to hire from Manpower) and brought in a total and complete change to the computer infrastructure. Moved them from Peachtree (yes) to SAP R3. Once the fix was done, the CFO decided to leave and "fix" another company. He offered to take me with him. So I left for a plastic...Expand for more