Edward Williams:  

Workplace My years at IBM were very varied I started in 1966 as a Quality inspector, I worked in mfg. as a line inspector on hand wired panels and later on the various machines, later in 1972 or there about I transferred to production on the new super market scanners. I later moved over to Production Control where I was a change analyzer on current products for several year and then a engineer change analyzer on new products. I was promoted to department technician and worked there for several years, during one of the early reorganizations I was moved into a staff position and worked there until I was activated by the army to go to Desert Storm, I returned from there with essentially no job and found an assignment again in production control working with the PC company. My career with the PC company as very bumpy and resulted in a lay off in 1994 but I was retained and went on to work in the warranty area supporting North America on new products again. I stayed until Dec 1996 after I had completed my 30 years and have never looked back. Military I had/have very interesting military experience, I grew up a military brat my father was in the US air force and we were stationed in many places, Mississippi, Illinois, Korea, Florida (twice) Japan and Ohio After graduation in 1962 from high school in Tampa Fla. I joined the Marines Corps and went to Parris Island for boot camp and Camp Lejune for ITR combat training. From Lejune I went to NSA Memphis to start my technical school training, I went to casual company and was on MP duty for a very short time I attended basic electronics school and from there went to NAS Pensacola to my class "A" photo school. After completion of photo school I was assigned to VMCJ-1 in Iwakuni Japan. I was first assigned to the photo lab ...Expand for more