Rodger Johnson:  

College: Texas A&M - world's first person to get degrees in Environmental Design (Architecture) and Finance (Business). Founded A&M's first ever social fraternity, now Sigma Phi Epsilon.One of the few students ever permitted by the Dean to take 25 hours per semester. Business: Founded EnviroDesign while in school, that became Texas largest design firm without registered architects. Set the design-build record for the fastest large commmercial building ever completed at 32 days from bare ground to keys in the owners hands. Headed a new desgin-build divison of Thoams E Stanley Architects and Engineers and took it to the top five in the world in 3 years. VP of design and construction at Leisure and Recreation Concepts (LARC)designing and building theme parks and large recreational projects; number 2 in the world in 3 years. VP sales of MiniBus; designed and certified with EPA the first ultra low pollution diesel bus, first bus with a floor height of only 12 inches, the first EPA voluntary compliance and the first every EPA heavy duty compiance ever by a single man. Founded The Apartment Movers, the worlds first computerises household goods company and now a national company and the largest volume moving company in Texas. Founded Adcock and Johnson who designed the worlds first compatible portable computer (1978). Founded IQ Computers and personally designed the worlds first laptop computer with a hard disk, the first 16 bit laptop, the worlds most powerful laptop marketed in the US as the EDS Portable One and in Europe as the Phillips Flyer. Founded IQ software that wrote the first alternative operating system for the Apple Macintosh that allowed it to run both Mac software, IBM software (using a crossinterpreter) and over 35,000 public domain programs using the CPM interface. The software is shown in the center of the cover of the first directory of software for the MAC. Founded Johnson & Johnson Computers leading the way in compter recycling and caputered one percent of the world high end computer printer market in the first year. First American to every speak at the Chinese Cultural Palace in Beijing on the future of China and Computers. First oil well drilled in the Giddings oil field (Texas). Founded Optimarket and purchased the only new deep water drilling rig in the Caspain Sea(Russia), the Shelf 7, reengineered it to international standards and financed it through the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developement as the banks first every fast-track project and larger than all previous loans combined in the Caspian Region. Selected by the countires of Kazakhstan and Iran to conduct the famous Kazakhstan-Iran oil swap under license from the US government. First American to be invited to visit The Holy Shrine at Mashad, Ira...Expand for more