Gregg Deporter:  

When I graduated from high school, I went to PCC and hated it. I quit and worked for Gray & Co. in Forest Grove. After 6 years I left to go back to PCC where I received a degree in Industrial Design/Drafting, photograpy and architectural design. Since then I've worked my way up to a Senior Engineering Designer/Technical Writer. In 2002 I decided to add an English/Creative/Technical Writing degree so went to the University of North Texas and received my BA in 2005. During that time I also received a scholarship from Society of Technical Communications (STC) to help me through school. I've been traveling all over the U.S. and Canada for most of my life. Last time there was a high school class reunion, I was living in Vancouver, B.C., working for a engineering firm designing pulp and paper mills. From there I've gone to Phoenix (Intel), Orlando(Lucent), Boston(DEC), Kokomo (Delco) and other less familiar places. Most of the positions were for engineering firms based out of Portland or Phoenix, AZ. When I lived in Dallas, TX (working at BAE) I married Tracy and have 1 son and 3 stepsons and now have a granddaughter and THREE GRANDSONS. I'm now back in Hillsboro, and it looks like I'm heading for Taiwan in the near future to help design a hi-tech (green) plant for my wife's company. I was hoping I could stay retired, but alas, she still has that traveling bug. I've been working lately on my poetry and story writing but it looks like that will be put on the back burner for now. For fun, we've love cruising (been to Ala...Expand for more