User:Randy Nonenmacher

The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.

I was born in Buffalo, NY in 1950, attended grade school in Richfield Springs, NY, and attended jr. and sr. high school in Edmeston, NY (both schools in relatively rural Otsego County). I graduated from Buffalo State in 1973 with a BS in art education, then taught jr. and sr. high school art for a year in Groton, NY (near Ithaca). After a few years as a welder and house painter, I joined the Navy as a submarine sonar technician. I was honorably discharged in 1982 as an E6. I then worked a as systems analyst for Raytheon in Portsmouth, RI, testing submarine combat control systems while studying computer science and math at Roger Williams College and URI. During this period I a also became a fairly avid competitive bicyclist, going so far as to be successfully treated for testicular cancer. After graduating with another BS in 1987, I moved to the Syracuse, NY, area to work for GE Aerospace, testing surface ship combat systems. My athletic interests branched into competing in canoe triathlons (run, bike, canoe) which were then common in the area. I also bought a house on the river which was in bad structural shape and required much of my creative attention. Within a few years I got married and had a daughter, which pulled me in a completely different direction. I also started working as software design engineer for the Seawolf submarine's combat control system (still at GE). Since then, GE's aerospace division was obtained by Martin Marietta, which later merged with Lockheed, so I now work at Lockheed Martin, still at Syracuse, bouncing between various naval software development and integration programs. My recently-revived interests have been photography, stamp collecting, and the continuing work on our current (structurally sound) house in a western exurb of Syracuse.