My first engineering job
My first engineering job was in the summer of 1968, I was employed by Paulsen Associates in Essex Junction, Vermont.
We had an appartment in Burlington and I drove my 750 Norton motorcycle 100 miles per hour to Esses to work every morning. One morning I entered a round about at the same time as a car did, I had to go very close to the granite curb in the middle, so close that I ripped off the entire side of my leather shoe. Another time when I accellerated turning left in front of oncoming cars (I did not want to wait, I could turn left in front of them faster than they could start when the light turned green) my drive chain snapped. I made it across and a short way up the hill before the motorcycle stopped.
That summer I was drawing up the plans for the water supply for the Essex area. Champlain Water District had me draw the plans. I also rowed out into Lake Champlain every day to the spot where the water was to be drawn from. I lowered glass bottles to several depths (about 75 feet down) to sample the water. I then added chemicals to the water to stabilize the oxygen content and brought the samples to shore.
I worked for Paulson Associates developing the original plans for the water supply.
I worked there in the summer of 1969 as well, but instead of paying for aa appartment we bought a tent and lived in it all summer. I took pallets and laid a matterss on them. We had a water spigot on the cornr of our lot where I went every morning to brush my teeth and get water to cook breakfat over the fire. We only had a dollar a day for food, so a pound of hotdogs at one dollr had to go a long way. Cooking a hotdog over a wood fire for dinner was our usual meal. Marshmallow toasted over the fire for desert.
Paulsen Asociates did not need me in 1970 so I ended up doing a lot of odd jobs. One job was replacing the roof covering of a house in New York.
3/30/1972 8/15/1973 Lanbanque Engineering – Norma Jean Coffin 6-6-70 to 10-26-83 – 13 years
8/20/1973 8/15/1976 Lloveras, Baur and Stephens
8/16/1976 3/30/1977 Deltona Corp – Cruise to Freeport
1/1/1977 5/1/1980 Herrick & Associates
5/1/1980 11/30/1980 Reynolds Smith & Hills – Cruises
9/1/1981 3/19/1982 City of Tarpon Springs
12 months – Lloveras
4/1/1983 7/30/1985 City of Dunedin – Jacquelyn Ann Brown 9-28-84 to 4-18-85 – 6 mo
8/1/1985 5/15/1989 Greiner Engineering, Inc. – Patricia A. to 4-7-92 -8 years – Cruises, Cancun, Cosumel, Grand Cayman
Trip to France, trip to Germany
5/16/1989 11/15/1996 City of St. Petersburg – Denise Loiselle 4-29-95 to 2-14-02 – 7 yrs – New Years cruise on Grusia, trip to Greece
11/15/1996 4/30/2003 Chitester Management Systems
5/20/2003 10/1/2004 Ash Engineering – Pamela Anne Metz 11-22-04 to 11-21-07 – 3 years
10/15/2004 5/30/2005 Keith Zayac and Associates, Inc.
8/29/2005 PT&C Forensic Consulting Services, PA
8/29/2005 Katrina
11/1/2006 Katrina 429 14.3 Katrina 14.3 months
11/2/2006 SC Liquid Waste 0.0
2/16/2007 SC Liquid Waste 106 3.5 SC Liquid Waste 3.5 months
2/17/2007 Colorado 0.0
3/1/2007 Colorado 12 0.4 Colorado 0.4 months
3/2/2007 Florida 0.0
5/22/2007 Florida 81 2.7 Florida 2.7 months
5/23/2007 Colorado 0.0
5/29/2007 Colorado 6 0.2 Colorado 0.2 months
5/30/2007 SC BIC 0.0
7/1/2007 SC BIC 32 1.1 SC BIC 1.1 months
7/2/2007 Oak Ridge 0.0
8/1/2007 Oak Ridge 30 1.0 Oak Ridge 1.0 months
8/2/2007 Hanford 0.0
10/1/2007 Hanford 60 2.0 Hanford 2.0 months
10/2/2007 SC 0.0
4/4/2008 SC 185 6.2 SC 6.2 months
4/5/2008 Texas 0.0
12/15/2008 Texas 254 8.5 Texas 8.5 months
12/16/2008 Florida 0.0
2/6/2009 Florida 52 1.7 Florida 1.7 months
2/7/2009 Vegas 0.0
6/6/2009 Vegas 119 4.0 Vegas 4.0 months
6/7/2009 Ohio 0.0
6/19/2009 Ohio 12 0.4 Ohio 0.4 months
6/20/2009 Vegas 0.0
7/17/2009 Vegas 27 0.9 Vegas 0.9 months
7/18/2009 Bellefonte 0.0
5/7/2010 0:00 Bellefonte 293 9.8 Bellefonte 9.8 months
5/9/2010 USACE NO
7/8/2010 21:39 USACE NO 61 2.0 USACE NO 2.0 months