Larry Mc Queen:
CLASS OF 1961
Kirkwood High SchoolClass of 1961
Kirkwood, MO
St. Joseph's AcademyClass of 1963
St. louis, MO
Nipher Junior High SchoolClass of 1958
Kirkwood, MO
Wilkinson Elementary SchoolClass of 1956
St. louis, MO
F.P. Tillman Elementary SchoolClass of 1955
Kirkwood, MO
Larry's Story
College
I began studying Mechanical Engineering in September 1961 at the Columbia, Missouri campus of University of Missouri. I left the University in June 1963 and worked at Mc Donnell Douglas Corporation as a draftsman in St. Louis until September 1964. I returned to the University in Columbia for one year and then returned to Mc Donnell Douglas as a technical illustrator. In the evenings I completed a BA degree in Political Science in January 1968 at the new St. Louis campus of the University of Missouri.
While stationed at Great Lakes Naval Station from June 1968 through June 1972 I continued taking engineering classes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for two years. I then applied for and was accepted at Roosevelt University in Chicago. I attended classes there in the evenings until I received my MBA in Management from the school in January 1973. I also completed graduate classes at both Marquette University and St. Louis University.
In 1974 after moving to Houston, Texas I began work on a masters degree in accounting at the University of Houston. After two years I switched back and began completing my engineering degree.
When I was within six classes of receiving my Civil Engineering degree I moved to California for a better job. I took engineering courses at the California State University campuses in Fresno, Los Angeles and Long Beach and actually returned for three classes in Houston, Texas in the Summer of 1986. I received my BS in Civil engineering in January 1987.
Workplace
I've worked for a German company based in a small city near Hamburg since December 1994. For seven years I travelled extensively throughout the United States making presentations to consulting engineering firms and engineers at major cities from Miami to Honolulu. In 2001 the German company sold the manufacturing rights to their product to a corporation based in the United States. For the last two and one half years I have continued to work for the German company. However, my clients have changed. I now work exclusively in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the Caribbean. For the last two years I've traveled on average approximately two weeks every other month to Australia and or New Zealand. My daughter lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand and my son will be working in Australia beginning in November 2003.
Previous to working for this German company I worked for a comp...Expand for more
any based in Houston, Texas from May 1989 through December 1994. Based in California I was exclusively responsible for the sale of their trenchless pipe product in all the western states.
From December 1986 through May 1989 I was the sales manager for a Los Angeles based construction company. Our company was the major inovator of a trenchless pipe rehabilitation product used by cities and sanitation agencies. My sales staff and I were responsible for sales in California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. during this period I completed my degree in Civil Engineering.
From September 1983, when I moved to California through December 1986 I worked as Marketing and Sales Manager for a San Francisco Bay regional consulting engineering firm and later as sales manager for a central California regional contracting firm.
From March 1974 through May 1983 I worked for Brown & Root, Inc. one of the world's largest construction firms in Houston, Texas. I held various positions there from scheduler to coordinator of long range planning for the Central Engineering Division. In this last position I prepared and presented long range plans for each of the divisions nine operating departments to Brown & Root's Board of Directors. I was assisted in preparing these plans by engineers assigned from each department and by several engineers from the company's Harvard MBA program where it was my responsiblity for recruiting and hiring engineers with MBA's. One other interesting position I held with Brown & Root was Assistant Department Head of the Civil Construction Division. I was responsible for helping to develop construction projects in Africa and the Middle East.
From February 1973 through December 1973 I worked as a management consultant for one of the largest management consultant firms in the United States. My responsibilities gave me experience in several various industries and my work took me to numerous cities in many states.
From June 1968 through June 1972 I was in the U. S. Navy. I was an instructor in electronics. In the evenings I completed my MBA in Management in Chicago, Illinois.
From June 1965 through June 1968 I was employed by Mc Donnell Douglas now owned by Boeing as a technical illustrator and later engineering administrator in the Space and Missle Department. In the evenings I completed my BA at the University of Missouri St. Louis.
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