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After graduation in 1993, I started work as an entry-level rocket engine thermodynamics engineer at Pratt & Whitney in West Palm Beach, FL. I worked on rocket engine programs including the RL10, the Space Shuttle Main Engines, the RD20, RD170, and RD180. It consisted of large amounts of fairly mundane design, modeling, and planning work punctuated by very exciting open-air rocket engine testing. Toward the end of my rocket career, I traveled fairly frequently to Mississippi and Alabama for engine testing at various NASA rocket engine test installations. It must be said again; open-air rocket engine testing is very exciting. It was the best of times. In 1989 I got married and in 1994 we had our first child. In 1995 we had our second child and decided to move back North so the kids could be closer to their grand-parents and benefit from the excellent Connecticut school system. The Florida school system, in my opinion, is inadequate. I transferred to the East Hartford main offices of Pratt & Whitney. I worked as a thermodynamic modeler for a few years and in 1999 took on a job where I am able to influence sales, finance, and program aspects of all air-breathing engine programs at Pratt and Whitney. Today I am honored to be a team member developing PurePower(TM) engine family strategies, revolutionizing air transport economics, and greening the air transport industry.