Notes from gnifyus

Right Now:

I work in the good old stable defense industry.

My wife and I have 2 teenagers which take most of our time while residing in the small town of Dalton MA. At first glance Dalton is a normal northeastern mill town. The thing that makes it stand out is the fact that you might have some of the town’s product in your wallet if you’re lucky. Crane & Company which makes all the paper, and also the embedded security for the U.S. Federal Reserve Note has its home here in Dalton.

Back Then:

I worked in a small —-5, er now 2 person machine shop which makes plastic injection molds for the plastic industry. I mainly design, program tool paths and machine electrodes using 3D CAD/CAM Software. It was a family business since sold to someone else a while ago.

I worked as a product engineer for a printed circuit manufacturing company. It was great working with all the different people that the job required me to work with. When you interface with everyone from Marketing to Engineering to workers on the shop floor, it really gives you a diverse sense of interaction in the workplace. It was also here where I taught myself the C and C++ computer languages to automate portions of my job.

Before That:
I attended Wentworth Institute in Boston where I completed a BSEE in Electrical Engineering. All I can say is: Those were the days. (Not because of the engineering so much, but because of being young.)

Kids and family life don’t leave a lot of time these days for hobbies, etc. its hard enough just trying to stay in reasonable physical shape, comment/ submit content on Omninerd once in a while and, oh yeah; work.

Right at the moment:

Trying to learn a new job and career.

The strange ‘gnifyus’ user name:
Some guy I knew in college used to call a Greek looking statue of a man near the Prudential Center "Gnifyus". Years later I thought it made a good anonymous login name. I’m not even sure I’m spelling it right. :-)
When I first stumbled on this site back in Nov 2006, I made my first timid anonymous comment, and then decided to login. At the time I didn’t really want to use my real name, so I used that one again.

And here I am still.