George William Conrad:  

Life Finally, after a number of requests, I have posted a couple of photos. One is from my first ship at sea when in Japan as a young Ensign, the second is current with my spouse..Remember me?? Two weeks after Germantown I was in the United States Coast Guard Academy at New London, CT and four years later was commissioned as an Ensign and assigned to Honolulu, Hawaii and then spent 26 years in service having a wide variety of primarily engineeering at sea and management positions on shore,finally leading up to a Command position. After service worked briefly for the National Transportation Safety Board in DC and left due to a divorce and having absolutely nothing, nada, to do despite the big bucks they paid me (GS-15). Having been in law in the military, and finding I really liked it, I went to law school and became licensed in two states as an attorney and started a private practice in VA. While doing that, received an unsolicited job offer to become a senior executive with a Fortune 500 firm in NY and to manage the Mid Atlantic Region for them. It was an offer I could not turn down ($$$) despite leaving a $400,000 fee due to me on the table at my legal firm; must have been crazy, looking back. I grew their business to over 45M to the point they reorganized the company and brought it down from NY to VA. With all the big wigs from NY now in VA, they offered me a staff job. I refused, leaving to start my own firm doing federal contracting consulting. I was consulting for a high tech firm who offered me a Director's position which I decided to take and got involved in the new to me field of high tech in developing multi media training products and services. I managed to market and to sell the CIA on the idea of signing a CRADA (cooperative research and development agreement)to bring language training multi media products their labs were developing for their agents into the public sector; their first ever and still only one. So, I had a CIA lab with a Director and 28 professional staff working for me for nothing with all of the resources the CIA had to help make the products ($$$'s, again) Made international news, personally interviewed on national and international TV and radio, as well as newspapers as well because of the signing. Had the most fun in my life developing this stuff since we were the first to put computer learning on CDROM using MPEG1, thanks...Expand for more