Thomas Lansing:  

After I left Satellite H.S., I graduated from Florida State with a Management of Information Systems Degree and minored in Military Science (ROTC). Florida State was fabulous ... was a student senator and ran the homecoming parade twice ... and enjoyed running across a few Satellite classmates on campus from time to time. I then moved on to my first career move in the military. I was trained as an Army field artillery officer, but with my MIS degree, they had me running a secure data center basically running war games and simulations. Military service wasn't what I expected (I was old school) so I then tried my second career move working as a NASA contractor with Allied-Signal Aerospace running a large data center that supported all the next generation communications with the space shuttle, space telescope, etc. Things really slowed down after the Challenger space shuttle disaster so I left the space biz industry. I then spent 15 years with MCI Telecommunications delivering interexchange carrier voice and data solutions. Some of the more interesting work was in fraud prevention where sometimes we were helping the various law enforcement agencies track terrorists and criminals. I also delivered interactive voice response systems which probably everyone that reads this will have placed calls through these systems at one time or another. I left MCI before WorldCom went bankrupt. It was very sad to see such a successful company brought down by a bunch of common criminals. I married my wife Linda in 1992 and we have been very happy. No children, but two very spoiled cats. Linda works at EDS (H. Ross Perot's original company). She works in corporate communications so I get some really great perks. I get to...Expand for more