Steven Nott:  

Life I retired from my career as an Engineering Executive in 2002, prompted mostly by my narrowly surviving a severe, life-threatening, and permanently debilitating illness. One of my arguably well-known projects several years ago was in the capacity of Project Manager and Senior Engineer for the GTE AirFone - the telephone that is in the seatbacks of many commercial airplanes, such as those of United Airlines. So if you ever use the AirFone, think of me (unless the darned thing doesn't work!). My positions have run the gamut over the past three decades, starting as an Engineer and progressing through Engineering Manager, Quality Assurance Manager for International Operations (mostly Singapore, Malaysia, and Mexico), Director of System Development, VP of Engineering, and President (the latter of my own, albeit small, Engineering company). On the technical side, I have expertise in both electronic hardware design and software development, including C, C++, C#, Java, Perl, CGI, SQL, VB.NET, et al, as well as Automation and Test Engineering. More recently, I have also developed Internet Security and Home Control technology. Utilizing the latter technology, I can control and maintain surveillance of my home from virtually anywhere in the world. I am married and living in a private community in Colorado, 25 miles southwest of Denver. Our home is immediately adjacent to and overlooking the Rocky Mountains, with a magnificent view and many thousands of acres of mountain wilderness area owned and maintained by my community, replete with many miles of hiking trails and streams, of which I've availed myself quite frequently. Although I love Colorado and the mountains, there are a number of things that I DO miss about living in Commack, perhaps owing to my family's many generations of living on LI, particularly: the SEA, REAL pizza, GOOD bagels, old friends. My wife, not yet retired, works in the Electronics industry, where we met. We have three "children": our 31 ...Expand for more