Jay Bruton:  

Life Born into a military family at Perrin AFB, near Denison, TX, Lived in Morocco, N. Africa until I was 4. Coming back to the States then, we lived in Alexandria, VA, where I started school (K-1), Moving again to Denison, I attended 2nd grade there, and then moved to Brownsville, TX for 3rd grade. Another move took us to the Irving, TX area (near Dallas) for grades 4-10. I was at Irving High between 1967-1969 My final move (while growing up) was to Tulsa, OK, where I graduated from Edison High in 1971. Going on to the University of Tulsa, I got a petroleum engineering degree, and went to work in New Orleans for Gulf Oil in 1975. They moved me to Houma, LA in 1976, and the to Houston, in 1977, where I have lived since then. Anybody connected to the energy industry can testify to the job uncertainties, and I am surely no different. I left Gulf in 1982 after getting my MBA at Houston Baptist Univ., and worked for the Italian company AGIP (now ENI) until 1986. I also got married in that same year, to Karen Ann Timmons Dyer. Her only son was 15 when we were married, and we have no children of our own. I worked at M-I Drilling Fluids from 1987 until 1990. I became a drilling consulting engineer for Amoco then, but that ended in 1991. Thoroughly disillusioned, I left the oil industry for 6 years, and had my own small business working with companies and individuals who needed computer assistance. I worked with a wide variety of business, from ocean shipping lines to lawyers, realtors, wholesale jewelers, and small manufacturing firms. I gradually added telecommunications equipment to computers, and installed, serviced and supported fax servers, and phone systems. In July, 1997, I rejoined the oil business which is still my profession. I am currently a consulting engineer and have done jobs in Mumbai (Bombay)India, Aberdeen, Scotland, and Nigeria recently. For the past ...Expand for more