Richard Boyden:  

I am currently retired and living with my wife, Joan, in The Villages, Florida. My life and career have taken many different avenues since high school. After a hitch in the Navy, I went on to get a BA in Pre-Med at UMass and went to work for Pfizer’s John L. Smith Memorial for Cancer Research in New Jersey 1965. I then enrolled and received a MS on Animal Pathology at UConn in 1970. While there I entered the political arena by being elected to the Willimantic city council for two terms and became active in Connecticut state political scene. I went on to perfect my managerial skills as an administrator of the Futures Group and an Executive Director of a medium size Bridgeport law firm. I began a law firm consulting practice which I transferred to Washington, DC in 1991. In 2000, I was accepted into an immersion program at George Mason University for a Master’s degree in Education, specializing in designing virtual learning environments. Upon graduation, I was recruited by and went to work for a series of defense contractors to develop virtual learning systems for the Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Joint Forces Command. I retired as a Mission System Integration Engineer from Lockheed Martin in 2010. While living in Washington, DC area, I served for several years as treasurer for the Friends Assisting the National Symphony and s...Expand for more