about greg

Experience by Decade

1940's
1. 1. Born 1949, Stafford Springs, Connecticut, USA
    1. "Waldenesque" rural farmer stereo type family, 7 siblings, rural 36 acre plot of land in Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
    2. Same year as the solid state transistor was being developed, diagram of the 1949 vintage Type A point contact transistor used by Walter in his design, which was done within a few months of the June 1948 public announcement of the invention of the transistor by Bell Labs.
      1. Significant only because I grew up right along with it, and today, 14 billion MOSFETs, in Apple's ARM-based dual-die M1 Ultra system on a chip We share that rich history of growth.
1950's

Beginning of my electrical engineering training

3. 1960's

An Employer - Christmas Tree Vendor
Manager Trainee National Restaurant Chain
Married - National Travellers on Motorcycles
United Technologies - Hamilton Standard Corporation - Machinist
Community College - Night School Interrupted because ".... My... Friends and Neighbors Selected You... (me)
Drafted - Last of the Draftees before the Lottery

'72 - DAV
1. Westinghouse Electric - Electrical Motor Manufacturer
2. Divorced - and still friends. No Thank you to - "My", ...Friends and Neighbors influence...
3. Secured Electrical Apprenticeship Job - during a no one could even "buy" a job era
4. Polarized as a believer of the "Commons"
5. Public Citizen
6. PIRG
  1. Amherst, Massachusetts Lead
    1. Nader, Ralph; Ross, Donald; English, Brett; Highland, Joseph (1971). Action for a Change. A Student's Manual for Public Interest Organizing. New York: Grossman Publishers. ISBN 978-0-670-10319-5.
'74 - Student - Margaret Holt and Francis Crowe Advocacy Training
'75 - McCarthy '76
1. National Campaign Organizer Staff
  1. Massachusetts Lead
  2. New York
'76 - Clamshell Alliance
1. 1. Civil Disobedience Training
  2. Out Reach Coordinator

5. 1980's

6. 1990 - 2009

Educator
1. Putnam Technical School - Springfield, Massachusetts
Department Chair
1. Electrical Technologies - Westfield Technical Academy - Westfield, Massachusetts
  1. Lead -

7. 2009 - Present