Michael Newman:  

I'll try not to elicit too many yawns here.... Left Iowa in '87 and never looked back. Basically, moved to Texas and currently live east of Dallas in a small town called Forney with my wife and children. Got a degree in Electronics in '89 and went to work in the professional Audio/Video industry, primarily as a service tech, but also doing large scale installations of every kind of A/V and control gear imaginable. Started working on high end video projectors and was eventually one of the best in the industry, working on all the top names and factory certified for every projector manufacturer on the planet; one of which was a company called Electrohome (think, GE of Canada). Don't worry, this has relevance in a moment.... After working for a couple different companies in this capacity, I helped found and build a small company in really high end residential A/V systems as VP and Systems Engineer, but we still did plenty of commercial/professional systems as well. This company won several national CEDIA awards for the systems I designed and my crews installed. For a small company, we had a lot of industry respect. Eventually, it was time to move on though. Remember that company called Electrohome?...well they merged with another company called Christie and became Christie Digital. This is the premier projector manufacturer in the world...I don't say that flippantly - all the industry peers say that. Christie Digital is a company that most have never heard of, but you see us absolutely everywhere. Watch the news? (FOX, CNN, Weather Channel, NBC, Colbert Report, etc, etc), all those pretty screens behind the talking heads....all Christie on rear screens. See Avatar in 3D? It was on a Christie....Christie is in approximately 85% of all digital and film cinema's across the US. (and the majority player throughout the world). See any concerts? Those giant screens with the performers on them are almost a...Expand for more