Kevin Ennis:  

Life After HS I worked briefly, for a while as a professional musician (piano), a security guard, and in sales briefly until I had enough of the "freedom" and spinning my wheels. I went back to school, working full time while attending school full time (made for some long days), receiving my electrical engineering degree in 1977, graduating first in my class with a 4.0 GPA. I then worked as a design engineer at a few places in the Chicago suburbs, got married in 1978, we had our first child in 1979, and in 1980 we moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico after I was hired by Sandia National Laboratories, a DOE nuclear weapons design lab. I was also offered a position at Los Alamos Labs, but that town gets serious snow and cold, and the area and labs felt a bit too cliqueish and elitist to me. Albuquerque is friendlier, and the weather can't be beat!! I hired on at Sandia in 1980 and I worked as a design engineer in the areas of particle beam fusion target experiments, weapon system engineering, and radar fuzing design engineering, as well as a few very interesting and challenging "black" programs while in systems, at the same time advancing my education further with out-of-hours courses the company paid for. I finished my advanced classes in 1988, including some at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Among my proudest achievements at Sandia is winning the coveted DOE Defense Programs Award Of Excellence. I spent 25 years at Sandia and took an early retirement at age 51, in Nov. 2...Expand for more