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Born in Louisiana in 1957. Toddler on farm in New Hampshire in 1959. Kindergarten student at MSJ in 1962-1963. Studied primary stuff at St. Peters from 1963-1965. Finished grades 4-6 at Northwest (a public school) in 1968. Completed grades 7-8 at RJHS in 1971. Attended high school at MSJ -- graduating in 1975. (During 1974-'75 I studied math at RHS.) I became a student (and employee) at RPI in 1975. I was awarded my BSEE from RPI with honors in 1979. Although I worked for IGC during my undergraduate years but contracted a Research Position for them in 1980-1981. In 1981 I was employed at LeCroy Resarch Systems. Nearing the end of 1983, I went to AT&T Long Lines, which became AT&T Communications as 1984 arrived. I left AT&T at the end of 1999 and began contracting out as a TSC for Sprint E|Solutions in 2000. After the 9/11 WTC events, Sprint E|Solutions was folded into their data-center operations. I went to work for Motivated Security Services from 2003-2010. I have moved to Rutland, Vermont as December 2010 began.
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Enter to Win an Adafruit Prototyping Pi Plate Kit for Raspberry Pi

It's Raspberry Pi month at Linux Journal. Each week in May, Adafruit will be giving away a Pi-related prize to a lucky, randomly drawn LJ reader. Winners will be announced weekly.
Fill out the fields below to enter to win this week's prize-- a Prototyping Pi Plate Kit for Raspberry Pi.
Congratulations to our winners so far:
- 5-8-13, Pi Starter Pack: Jack Davis
- 5-15-13, Pi Model B 512MB RAM: Patrick Dunn
- Next winner announced on 5-21-13!
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