User:Rclark9280

Bob Clark aka Robert Edward Clark
Early Years I was born August 14th, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York. Moved to Staten Island, New York at 8 years and then moved to Phoenix, Az at the age of 14. Left Phoenix (not of my choosing!) at the end of Junior year in Alhambra High School and moved to South Hadley, Massachusetts. Graduated South Hadley High in 1971 (I hated that school and still do).

Leaving home and establishing myself

Went to Holyoke Community College where I worked towards an associates degree for at that time, I had no clue what I wanted. I worked and paid my own way through school working 3rd shift. That didn't help! This is when my folks got divorced. It was tough period. Drinking age was 18 then. I choose to say that I escaped by marrying my high school sweet heart and moving away, back to Phoenix. I found a decent job there building circuit board etching machines. This is where I first learned about Digital Equipment Corporation. We left Phoenix and returned to South Hadley. I finally got a decent job at Digital and have been there since. Got divorced in 1978 or 79. That is when I met my true love, Anne. From there I needed to reset and restarted my life back in Phoenix; transferring within Digital.

My new life

Anne was just starting her career at that time. I could not convince her to move to Phoenix. She chose to accept a job with Xerox in Hayward, California. We kept in touch and stayed together through a long distance relationship. It worked! I left Digital in 1979, moved to Hayward and lived with Anne. We got an apartment in Fremont so my commute would be easier to go to San Jose working for Spectra Physics. LEft California and went back east to Maine and eventually re-joined DEC in Maynard, Ma.

Have been working in this same job since 1974 with Digital where I started in the Westfield, Ma. facility. Continued employment with Compaq Computer after their purchase of Digital and continued employment with HP after they purchased Compaq. Have worked in hard-copy (dot matrix printers) engineering, Vax-Alpha workstations engineering, Alpha Servers and Storageworks Businesses. I currently work in Nearline Tape R&D and am working on the development of a new USB and SAS DAT320 DDS tape drive. The program is a cooperative development effort between HP and Sony Corp. Once the DAT320 was launched we released one new code roll to resolve some issues. The product was very stable at this point. There was no longer the need for Sustaining Engineers for the product so HP laid me off.

2011 and on

Stayed home and really began to enjoy my time off, while Anne rejoined the workforce. I became a house husband or what I affectionately refer to as Mr. Mom. After 7 months off, I had a good tan (haha) and got a tip about a job. With a phone interview only, I was hired as test engineer for Dell under contract. I took the job and remain here after the initial 5 month contract. Dell is a great place to work and reminds me of the DEC days.

So here we are "empty nesters" and we both have jobs making good money. May as well suck it up as long as possible!

Our new home

We bought a house in Sterling, ma after we returned from our honeymoon in Puerta Vallarta. We have been in the same home ever since. Anne and I are parents of 2 girls, Stacie and Amanda. Jessica, from my first marriage is also part of our family. Anne and I are both very lucky!

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