Ken Thomas:
CLASS OF 1972
Iowa Park High SchoolClass of 1972
Iowa park, TX
Ken's Story
Anybody remember me? Yep, I was the school dork. The kid voted "dumbest kid in school" in Mr. Dick's class and the same kid that was jerked from his desk by Mrs. Dawson and told to stop being so dull. I was the kid that was always quietly in his own world doodling strange hieroglyphics.
I guess I was pretty dumb. Even though I knew I had a hearing problem, I didn't realize that it was abnormal to not be able to hear the teacher even from the first row. Guidance counselors, principals and teachers also didn't know there was a problem since I could "sufficiently" understand them while sitting three feet from them directly in front of their desk. Anyway, I finally figured that one out and took care of the problem. (Turns out conventional hearing aids are for hearing loss. My hearing issue is a birth defect, so conventional hearing aids didn't work. The fix was to design my own hearing aid in 1998. That rea...Expand for more
lly helped accelerate my career, not to mention social life!
But, at least, I was smart enough to know what I wanted to do with my life. It was a long struggle, with no college preparation from IPHS, but I finally made it. Long before high school, I knew I wanted to be an electronics design engineer (Note: the strange doodling was electronic schematics).
I moved to Austin, Texas in 2000 with my wonderful wife, Heidi, where I was employed as a design engineer at a contract design firm called Technology Kitchen. Technology Kitchen provides design services to all types of businesses from consumer to medical to industrial to aerospace to military. I left Technology Kitchen in April 2016 to start my own business called Electric Perfection to design high-end audiophile amplifiers. See it at electricperfection.com.
Hobbies include; electronic design, automotive, electric vehicles, health & fitness and hiking.
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