Bob West:
CLASS OF 1970
Morgantown High SchoolClass of 1970
Morgantown, WV
Morgantown High SchoolClass of 1970
Morgantown, WV
Bob's Story
Life
After MHS I went to work for Lionel Farr's dad at the Physics Department at WVU. I did lab setups and grading and teaching labs while in undergraduate school and worked part time at the WVU Computer Center (later known as WVNET)...
When I was in grad school I got a call from a friend who had gone to Dallas Texas. The were hiring at Texas Instruments and paying what seemed like real money (after grad student wages!) I stayed at TI until the Defense Segment was sold to Raytheon and got
reorganized. My last positing there was teaching C programming and UNIX.
I moved back home to Morgantown after 20 years in Texas. I am now working for a consulting service called Metro that was assimilated into a larger company called Keane. They had me on assignment to the FBI center near Clarksburg where I supported Software Developers on a cluster of UNIX servers. After a few years and ...Expand for more
a contract changeover, I moved to another contracting company named UTA, which was subsequently bought by DigitalNet and finally that was bought by BAE Systems IT, North America. So sitting at the same desk with the same phone number and the same job assignment I've worked for 5 different companies.
I just spent a year on contract to Lockheed at the Middletown Mall in Fairmont, which was kind of cool since it cut 20 miles per day off the drive. Now I'm back at Clarksburg on a new project, and am settling in to that.
Family: My Mom passed in 1996 and I lost Dad in 2003. I'm out here at the farm by myself, except for about half a dozen semi-feral cats (should never have fed the first one!)
Fun: Ham Radio, Blue Lodge, an occasional movie, and playing guitar.
Texas was neat, and there are places and people there I truly miss, but West Virginia has really always been home.
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