Rob Doerschner:  

After finishing my bachelor's degree in engineering at Pitt in 1978, I worked for the Department of Energy in West Mifflin for 4 years while getting my Masters in Engineering Management at Pitt at night. I then left the Burgh in 1982, and moved to Atlanta, GA to get my doctorate in engineering at Georgia Tech. I would be in Atlanta for 17 years. After a year of study at Tech, I realized a doctorate was not for me so I opted for a second masters degree and rejoined the workforce and graduated in December 1983. I was liking life in Georgia and hoped to stay and was blessed to get a job working for the Air Force In the Base Civil Engineering organization at Dobbins AFB in Marietta, Georgia where I would spend the next 15+ years and was blessed to move up in the organization to be the Base Civil Engineer within 3.5 years with some great mentoring. I finally needed a change in 1999 and took a lateral, career-broadening job at Scott AFB in suburban St. Louis in August of that year. I really liked St. Louis because it reminded me a lot of Pittsburgh, and the Midwest is a very warm and "down home" kind of place. In 2000, I was fortunate to be selected for a promotion to the Pentagon staff in DC and moved again and bought a townhouse in Alexandria, VA just south of the Beltway. I worked there through August of 2004 when I was selected to attend the National War College at the National Defense University in DC full-time to get my masters degree in National Security Strategy. What a deal!! This was 10 of the most formative and life-affecting months of my life. After finishing school, I returned to the Pentagon Staff in a different job as Chief of Executive Services for the Civil Engineer of the Air Force. I left that position in October of 2006 for a promotion with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency of the Department of Defense as Deputy Director of Installation Op...Expand for more