Miles Elledge:  

Life Hello Everybody! I look forward to hearing from you. A brief biography I have had a career in and out of the design field. I was always out in the garage building or making something. One of my earliest projects was a wooden kayak converted to a submarine, but my parents wouldn't let me put it in the water. Over the years I spent many hours building models, motorbikes, and go-carts. One design, a Dune Buggy, won first place in a high school competition sponsored by a local Kiwanis Club. I was awarded Bank of America's Industrial Arts Student of the Year in 1975. After graduating I spent a year in Phoenix, studying automotive mechanics, with a dream of one day working at the Indy 500. I later attended Orange Coast College's Industrial Arts program till 1981. Years later I attended CSULB Voc-Ed program. I was always a restless spirit, I worked for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. While there as an arts and craft teacher, I and the children made wood toys, some of which he put into production at his own small company, A Fantasy in Wood. From 1980 to 1990 I produced hundreds of models in wood and exotic metals for clients around the world, and for several museum collections. As life would have it, I was lead to engineering and design at Goglanian Bakeries building and fabricating large industrial ovens. While there, a long term project, the "Pita Pocket Perforator" failed to be completed by several different design engineers, even though several years and many thousands of dollars were thrown at completing the device. I was given a green light in 1985 to give it his best shot and had the perforator designed, installed, and up and running within eight weeks. The perforator is used to place little nicks in the Pita bread to create sandwiches and later designs of this machine are still in use today. These sandwiches are used by Foodmaker Corporation, for their Jack In The Box restaurants. Ano...Expand for more