-Completed PPL in college
-B.S. in Space Science
-Hired on with the Space Station prime contractor at Kennedy Space Center as a systems test engineer (incidentally the ISS hardware I worked on back in '00-'01 was recently bolted on in orbit.)
-Transfered to the emerald city to work as an FTE in the company's big shiny airliners division. Worked as an Avionics/Autoflight FTE on X3X-9XX, X5X-3XX, X4X-4XXER, X6X-4XXER, and X7X.
-Took a leave of absence to learn to fly jets in the USAF Reserve.
-High speed low levels were not my forte so after 2.5 years I went back to the civilian job
-Picked up where I left off at the company.
-Currently a test conductor aboard X3X,X4X and X7Xs.