Travis Edam:
CLASS OF 1985
South Kitsap High SchoolClass of 1985
Port orchard, WA
Marcus Whitman Junior High SchoolClass of 1982
Port orchard, WA
Esquire Hills Elementary SchoolClass of 1979
Bremerton, WA
Tracyton Elementary SchoolClass of 1979
Bremerton, WA
Lincoln Elementary SchoolClass of 1979
Great falls, MT
Travis's Story
Well, it's been about 25 years since senior year started, and I guess I've done a few things since then. It's been about 8 years since I had my last website, but I'm back online in a few places.
Okay, so we're not supposed to put websites in anymore - but you can google travis edam and find me on myspace and such.
Let's see... after SK I went to ITT in Seattle to study Electronics. Got an Associate's Degree in '88 and started working for Nintendo in Redmond the same year. Spent 7 months at Nintendo of Europe in 90-91. Back to Nintendo of America for a while, then I went to Denver to run a Nintendo Service Center for a company called Mountain Coin Machine.
While there, I moved more into the coin-op world, repairing Pinball Machines, Jukeboxes, and Video Games. During my off time I did a lot of mountain biking and skiing, played guitar and wrote a bunch of songs, and grew a lot of pot. Toward the end of 1997, I decided I wasn't up for another winter there, and moved to Bothell, WA, first with my Mom, then into a 50-ft trailer I bought right down the street from Mackie, where I'd ended up working.
Mackie was a cool gig - they make pro audio mixing boards, power amps, powered monitors, etc. I started off as a PCB tech, and eventually became a Test Engineer, maintaining the custom test equipment used out on the floor and designing new equipment & tes...Expand for more
t procedures for testing new products as they went into production.
Around New Year 2002, Mackie did some restructuring, as a lot of the manufacturing was outsourced to China. I'd been getting heavily into sailing, and my best sailing buddy and I went in on a big 45-foot sloop that we found in Bellingham and brought down to Everett, which boasts the 2nd-largest marina on the West Coast. The boat was built in 1971, and needed a lot of electrical work done on it, so I learned a lot about Marine Electrical Stuff while I handled it.
Scott, said sailing buddy, started living on the boat and persuaded me that I should too, cuz I could put up flyers and be an independent boat electrician. So I did that for a few years, but the work could be spotty sometimes, specially in the winter - I decided a needed a steady job again. My former specialty as a World-Class Circuit Surgeon wasn't in much demand anymore, and I decided I needed more active work to help with the gut I'd started puttin on.
So I did a little of this, a little of that for a while, till I ended up where I am now - running the warehouse for one of the coolest boat supply stores you'll ever find, right here in the Port of Everett Marina. Scott got married and bought a house, so I live on the boat by myself now.
I don't bust the guitar out much anymore - but I do rock all the Guitar Hero games.
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