James Kinkaid:  

Well, where to start? First off you won’t find me in the yearbook anywhere even though I was there for all 3 years and was on the Winter and Spring Track teams each year. Why? Because way back when I wasn’t into the whole High School experience. Never got a class ring; never bought the yearbook. So I never showed up for pictures. Back then I was into music, fishing, hockey and hanging out with my friends. I am trying to find some pictures of me from that time period to post because looking at me now you might not remember me, because then I had blond very curly hair (it went straight as it went grey). My best friends in High School were Jimmy Johnson, Gary Begin and Chris Scotti. Graduated Brentwood High in 1973 and went off to SUNY Farmingdale where I got my Associates degree in Computer Science, then I went to NYIT were I got my BS in Computer Science. I went to work for Sperry and then later AIL Systems which, thorough a number of mergers and acquisitions is now called ITT Exelis. I rose through the ranks so that now I am a Senior Manager and am in charge of the SW Engineering Department. Along the way I lead the development teams for a number of very successful programs, and was...Expand for more