User:Empress Lainie

Empress Lainie lives in Las Vegas. The Empress title comes from a forum site where she created a Tropical Island Paradise for the members to relax and chat and have fun in. Her screen name on the site is ZYZX.

She loves to dance and started dancing on April 1, 2007. Until the end of June, she danced every night at the Suncoast in Las Vegas. Then they cut out the bands except on weekends so after that she could only dance on Friday and Saturdays unless she went to the South Point where she could also dance on Thursday. She is practically a celebrity at the Suncoast.

She plays 23 instruments, has written and published six songs and two poems. One of them was given the place of honor as first poem in The International Who's Who in Poetry. The poem is called "After Dying Once." She has taught music for 18 years in Las Vegas, all instruments and all ages from 5 up. She has developed a method of teaching that can have a 5yr old playing by notes in 30minutes with both hands.

Her career in Engineering was from 1955 to 1989. She was a combined Electrical, Mechanical and Plumbing Engineer. She has designed those systems and supervised construction in over 50 schools in Texas and also 50 in California. She is a Certified in Plumbing Engineering and the founding President of the American River Chapter of the American Society of Plumbing Engineers. She was also a charter member of the Houston Texas Chapter, and an officer in the San Francisco Chapter.

She was also the Division Manager of the Electrical Division of George F. Schuler, Inc. in Stockton from 1970 to 1977. She was responsible for all electrical construction as well as also serving as an engineering consultant for the air conditioning and fire sprinkler departments.