Anne Nelsen:  

Life After spending my childhood on Quarry Street in Nogales, Arizona and graduating High School, I went on to the University of Arizona. Where I got a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering. My first professional job was with Intel in Chandler were I worked as a process engineer in the Etch area for 3 years. In 1989, I moved on to MOS-6 a Motorola Semiconductor plant, where I was involved in their first 6 inch start-up of the factory. In mid-1990, I transferred from to Austin, Texas for Motorola's the start-up of another semiconductor factory, this time with 8 inch wafers. I was then hired by a competator - AMD in Austin Texas, another semiconductor company where I worked the next 10 years, doing various jobs in Photolithography and Etch. During that time I also managed a 2 year assignment at a reasearch consoritum called Sematech from 1995 to 1997. It was at Sematech in Texas, that I met and fell in love with my husband, David Nelsen. David is also a Chemical Engineer, he is 1 year older than me and graduated from Texas A&M - and Aggie (for all you football fans out there). Changing my name to Anne Nora Nelsen. In October 1999, I was blessed with my first son, David Charles Nelsen. Who is a bundle of energy! I quit my job when he was born, then in May of 2000 moved to Oregon with my husband, who was employed at Intel there. My daughter, Deirdre Anne Nelsen was born in July of 2001. Later that year my husband was offered a foreign ex-patriot assignement to Intel Ireland. It took 2 years of planning and selling houses - plural- which was pure, unadulterated hell! But, happily, in 2003 with no trucks, mini-vans or housed to our name, we arrived in Dublin Ireland with 8 luggage bags loaded with toys, clothes, diapers, pots and pans and a few things I could not live without. I was also 10 weeks pregnant(again!). We first moved to Kilcock Ireland (about 20 minutes west of Dublin City) in July 2003 where I stayed for 1 year. My 3rd child was born in...Expand for more