Steven Carpenter:  

Life I moved to Lancaster, California for junior high school after spending 3 of my elementary school years in El Nido, Calif. living on a farm. I attended Joshua Junior High for 7th and 8th grade and then attended Antelope Valley High School for my freshman year. At the end of 9th grade, we packed-up and moved to Fox Island, Washington where my grandparents had purchased an older home in 1955. It had always been a family dream to be able to live in Washington, but did not become a reality until the summer of 1972. I enrolled at Peninsula High School where I would spend the next 3 years of high school. It was a fantastic environment in everyway! I missed the people that had become my friends in Lancaster, but I quickly adapted to my new life in Washington. After graduating high school in 1975, I spent 3 months at the Universidad de las Americas in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico attending classes during the week, improving my Spanish language skills, and traveling on the weekends. Upon returning to Washington, I enrolled at Tacoma Community College and started working on my associates degree. After TCC, in June of 1977, I became a full time employee at a fastener company in Tacoma named Tacoma Screw Products. After 7 years with the company, I left to pursue other interests and returned in 1988 and I have been there ever since. With the recent opening of our store in Pasco, WA we now have 13 retail outlets. For approximately the past 17 years, I have been the Inventory Manager for this outstanding company. In addition to managing inventory, I trained employees for several years regarding the use of the distribution software that we use for selling our products. As of May of 2007, I am no longer the corporate trainer because we have now made that a full-time position and have hired a long-ti...Expand for more