Andy Bernhardt:
CLASS OF 1982
Arlington High SchoolClass of 1982
Lagrangeville, NY
Gainesville, FL
Hampton, VA
SUNY at Buffalo - EngineeringClass of 1986
Buffalo, NY
Andy's Story
Life
I officially hate moving, but here's what happened. I attended UB (Buffalo) to get my B.S. in Aerospace Engineering (1986). After four years in Buffalo, I just could not take winter any more. So I started my southernization in coastal VA with a graduate degree program affiliated with NASA Langley and after a year decided to transfer farther south to the University of Florida in Gainesville (1987) to finish my M.S. (1988). Then I started my first full-time engineering job at Pratt & Whitney in West Palm Beach. I met my wife-to-be that year, and we married in 1991. After watching five years of downturn in the defense business, I made a career transition to medical devices with a company in Memphis (1993). I started with spinal devices and also branched out into hip joint replacements. Then I discovered a cool opportunity in design & development with human tissue transplantation (no kidding) back in Gainesvi...Expand for more
lle (1998). The company (Regeneration Technologies) went public thereafter, and some people made their millions. Some got let go. Some made their millions and then got let go. I left the company first, but no move required this time (2001). By then, we have two children and I was working in hip joint replacements again at a Gainesville-based company called Exactech. By this point in my life, I am officially defrosted. In 2005, I was recruited for a position in spine product development at a company in Draper, Utah. I thought, prayed, and moved. Work was fun, got a lot done, skiied some (or attempted to), hiked and biked in the beautiful mountains. Then financial issues at the parent company surfaced in a big way, the company downsized, I survived and got recruited for a position in Connecticut. So there you have it. Here I am! Back with the Yankees. But it is only Friday. Who know's what will happen next.
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