Robert Walker

Coleman High School

Class of 1988

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Robert Walker - Class of 1988 - Coleman High School

First Name	Robert
Last Name	Walker
Graduation Year	Class of 1988
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	WI
Country	United States
Occupation	Director of Application Engineering
Married	Yes
Favorite School Memory	There were lots of good memories, I really can't think of just one that stands out. Perhaps some of the crazy snowmobile adventures. The names will be with held to protect the guilty. But you know who you are.
About Me	What a loaded question. I could write a book on that but no one would buy it. Here are the cliff notes: After graduating in Madison, I took a job at Best Power Technology in Necedah WI (1990). I married Lisa in 1993 and in 1994 we moved to Milwaukee so she could go back to school and get her bachelors in Occupational Therapy. I worked at Allen Bradley for a couple years and then with Cooper Power Systems. When Lisa graduated in 1997 the market for her skills was pretty soft in Wisconsin. I had a yearning for the West after many business trips. We packed up and moved to Seattle WA. I worked for a small company were I wore a lot of hats. (Service Manager, Sales Person, Electrician, Application Engineer, Collections & Purchasing). I was on call 24/7 and gave up a lot of weekends and holiday’s servicing our customers critical power infrastructure. It was a very exciting time and I loved the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. We would often weekend in the Mountains, or the Coast, or head up to Vancouver & Victoria BC. My reputation began to precede me in my work career. It was kind of nice having people hunt you down and try to hire you away. However I really enjoyed the company of my boss the owner of Computer Power & Service. It was after many attempts to lure me back to Wisconsin that I finally gave in to a company called JT Packard. They are located in Verona WI. Combined with the fact that Lisa and I were missing out on a lot of good family years were our nephews and nieces were becoming adults and parents getting older we felt it in our hearts to be closer to family again. However I admit that I do long for the life we had in Seattle at times excluding the being on call 24/7 and the terrible traffic. So in January of 2006 we moved back to Wisconsin, with a stop in Yellowstone for several days of awesome snowmobiling. The Wisconsin market however again proved to be a poor choice for Lisa’s career compared to Seattle. So after a year with no luck of finding the work she liked locally she went back to Graduate School (University of Missouri Columbia MIZZU) and is graduating this December 18th 2008 on our 15 year Wedding Anniversary. She will have a Master’s in Health Care Administration. My career at JT Packard has been a whirlwind the past 3 years. I found out that all those years in Seattle with a small company and wearing all those hats gave my a very broad back ground in a very niche industry. I think I have had 6 job title changes in 3 years. I still carry a phone all the time, but I am working on some very exciting jobs with a lot of fortune 500 companies. However I never look at my self as that successful business person, to me I am still that small town country kid from Coleman WI. The things that have served me the best are the values I was taught by my parents and a communi...(read more)