Wayne Wylie:
CLASS OF 1975
Gregory-Portland High SchoolClass of 1975
Portland, TX
Southwest Texas State UniversityClass of 1979
San marcos, TX
Menger Elementary SchoolClass of 1969
Corpus christi, TX
Wayne's Story
Every so often in life opportunities arise to change direction. Got an email from a top American in the world's largest oil company located in the Middle East asking if I wanted to come back. I said yes.
Wayne
Dec. 29, 2008
Well, the adventure continues.....
Just landed the Director of Sales and Maketing job for Evergreen Defense & Security in McMinnville, Oregon.
Will travel globally to line up $$$$. We have our own line of Predator drones (UAVs) in addition to a lot of 'ex Rangers, Seals and CIA.
In my first week, flew from Houston to Portland, OR to Wash. D.C. Wild Stuff! Africa, Middle East and Germany are on the horizon.
Off we go into the Wild Blue yonder :-)
Wayne
Life
Where do I start....
I was not a cowboy, so when I left Portland, I did not look back.
Graduated with from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos with highest honors, who's who, wall street journal award. President of Honor society. Big whoopee :-)
Worked with Shell in International Finance & Accounting on Cameroon, Africa...then accounting for oil trading, then supervisor of Shell Chemical Accounting. Got married, then divorced, then re-married and finally had 2 sons, currently 17 and 12. Got really bored and jumped ship to Saudi Arabia to work in Strategic Planning with the world's largest oil company -Saudi Aramco. After 5 1/2 years, Bin Laudin got on our compound in 1...Expand for more
997 and was trying to kill everyone, so I quit and returned to Texas. Got a job as a Corporate Controller with Babcock Int'l. out of London - they had a US sub in Houston that built pipelines. After 2 years of commuting 3 hours per day, couldn't take it anymore. Make a ton of money in the tech boom and took a year off. Called by the former head of Arco IT to turn around a software implementation for a $ 1 billion revenue company. Did it and had fun travelling from Portland, Maine to LA and everywhere in between. Then someone else called me, then someone else called me and before I knew it I spent 4 1/2 years on the road. When you are Platnum in hotels and airlines, it's time to hang it up. Then I started a web based company that didn't make it, then a low tech company that didn't make it...does anyone out there know marketing :-)???????
Anyway, started looking for a real job again and couldn't find one, so I took a job in Project Management in Kuwait that then moved to Iraq. Worked in Southern Iraq near Nasiriyah (where Abraham grew up), then in Northern Iraq near Tikrit (where Saddam grew up). After almost 2 years came home to my famiily. Currently looking around for a job or to start something big that will turn the world upside down (I know...old farts should be relaxing, not running wind sprints).
I love life and helping other people. Email me your story.
Wayne
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