Ron Hook:  

Life Hi there! Do you remember me? I remember NPHS and almost all my classmates like it was yesterday. I went to Santa Clara Univ. out here in California and got a BS in Electrical Engineering and then began working at Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin) in the aerospace field as a Reliability/Systems Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA. At work, I use hardware failure rate probabilities and lots of spreadsheet math models to determine how well and how long space hardware will work and if more redundancy is needed in the designs. I also look at what will happen to the mission if different pieces of hardware fail. I work on several space "programs" -- including some highly classified stuff for keeping our country and world safer and others that provide things like your dish network TV service, cel phone and pager services. I really like what I'm doing which explains why, after 20 years, I'm still working at the same company! As to my personal life, I got married in August 1997. In early 1998, my wife Laurie and I bit the bullet and bought a house in Silicon Valley (don't talk to me about our mortgage), but we have managed t...Expand for more