Currently working as a "Domestic Engineer" during the day-----part time.
Retired Information Systems analyst/ Manager/ Consultant. Worked for several top 10 businesses including computer manufacturers, materials distribution centers and the health care industry.
Now, I play with my car projects.
Corporate Sales and Leadership Trainer as well as Curriculum Developer for a smaller telcom company. Spend way too much time in front of a computer monitor or on a plane. I've been traveling more than normal for the last 5 months, and am heartily sick of airports, hotels, and rental cars.
I work for an auto and general liability insurance company, in the claims department. I started as an auto claims adjuster. Was in the field appraising damaged cars, taking statements from people involved, dealing with their attorney, deciding who's at fault, etc... I then spent several years as a fraud investigator. Investigated phony thefts, rate evasion, people hiding drivers in their house, etc... Left that company and started with my current employer as a claims manager. My staff handled auto and general liability claims (slip and falls, food poisoning, etc...). I am now a "specialist" or "consultant" focusing on the auto side of our business.
I design/create software that banks use to process electronic payments.
I'm also responsible for all the code that runs in the 3890/XP check sorter.
(it's bigger than a breadbox) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3890
We haven't made any in several years, but the support contracts pay
my salary.
I am a Professional Engineer licensed to practice in North Carolina. Currently retired. Worked for Duke Power in my early years. Then went to work for a fiber/polymer (polyester) producer that made yarns and tire cord for all of the major tire manufactures as well as yarns that went into re-inforcement for rubber goods like hoses and conveyor belts. Current hobbies include working on my Fiats, music(guitar and getting ready to learn violin/fiddle), old house repairs (house circa 1845), and yard/garden work. In my 20's I got a pilots license and I built and flew a homebuilt airplane, but that hobby got too expensive! The Fiat hobby is starting to catch up!!
Stan McConnell
Retired Mechanical Engineer
Salisbury, North Carolina 82 2000 Spider (driving)
78 124 Spider on the rotisserie
76 124 Spider parts car or possible Lemons racer
83 parts car
I just sell car parts, I work the back counter, (with the technicians) at a Toyota, Scion, Honda & Mazda dealership. You'd think I'd be sick of cars, but here I am on Fiat Spider.com on my lunch break!
I rent Cars for a living. At least that is how I started out. Now I oversee the Accounting, Risk Management, Vehicle Repair and facility operations teams supporting the rental of vehicles in Texas. Like some others here, I'm around cars all the time. I would have never thought 20 years with one company was possible.
Im a travelling service tech that do service, install and customer support, the field Im working is the heathcare and research. I just love my job since its taking me to all corners of our beautiful world.
The road can be lonsome sometimes but thats where all you guys coming in, I have meet so many new friends here and I hope to see all of you again soon.
I'm a Pastor to teenagers at a large church in St. Louis. I have an amazing staff of five employees who work with me and we pour our lives into helping young people. My icon picture is from our summer camp in Colorado - five chartered buses of teens!
Worked as a Police Officer for 28 years until my retirement last June. No donut jokes. I prefer pastries.Took several months off and then took a job as a subcontractor. Not allowed to say who I work for or what I do. Believe me nothing exciting. Far from it. Putting kids through college so have several more years to work. Now besides family and work, hang out with the guys from NJFIATS.COM, play golf and shooting sports
First job out of school was a drilling engineer for Exxon. When the oilfield business was slow in the early 80's, I changed to the aerospace arena. Our company makes hydraulic, pneumatic, and electromechanical control systems primarily for flight control (wingflaps, landing gear, autopilot, braking, steering, vector control for rockets, missiles and the space shuttle). I'm part of a team that makes similar products for use in motion control for industry, manufacturing, etc. It's a small group, so I wear several hats: engineering, manufacturing, sales, applications. Our largest customer is Disney (animatronics motion control). When traveling on business, I usually try to find some of you Fiat folks sprinkled around wherever the travel takes me -- that's a part of the job that I especially enjoy.