Len Hinton:  

CLASS OF 1987
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Hastings, MI

Len's Story

Life Well, where should I start? Guess I might as well start at the beginning. After Hastings High School I started Summer Help at Kellogg’s for College Students.Then when fall came I entered into Kellogg Community College and started studying Architectural Design. Later on I started to Study Electricity/Electronics. Next thing I new I was working in a factory job making good money, like a lot of you. I was also working at a computer store learning how to repair computer and printer. Then one day the Manager/Part Owner who was also my teacher had a Heart Attack and this was the last day in the factory for me… I started working full time at the computer store until the Manager/Part Owner said that he sold is house and was moving to Florida. I was then offered to take over the computer store. I owned it for nine years earning Best Computer Repair Shop for Canon Computer Corp. out of about six States. Later after it got harder to sell computer when Staples Best Buy stores started popping up all over I decided to close the store and work for someone else. I got a great break with a company in Battle Creek called Denso working on their AS/400 Computer System for a fill in until they hired one of there programmers daughters. This small step got me into Kendall electric where I w...Expand for more
orked on there AS/400 Computer System and later on started to attend Kalamazoo Valley Community College for Programming. Kendall’s decided to change computer systems that in the end made my job eliminated with all the programmers too. So the job hunt started again. I had some great interviews with companies like Mead in Pennsylvania, Mid Michigan Medical in Midland, Michigan; Cardinal Health Systems in Ohio who is the 17 largest companies on the fortune 500 list, And IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. I was hired by IBM and then a few days before I was to move To Rochester Minnesota I had a call asking me to come to and interview for a small company in Olivet, Michigan. They offered me more money than IBM and moved me up in my Field two positions. So, now that is where I am now working as I.S. Tech / Analyst. I maintaining there AS/400 Mainframe Computer writing quires and do small program changes, PC, Printers, Networks Last year I bought some proper and have built a 40x72 pole barn and plan to start building a house in the coming year or two. It’s a house I have designed myself from all the years of drafting I took at Hasting High School and KCC. To answer all your questions, I never go married and I do not have any children. Guess I paid attention during those Sex-Ed classes.
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