William Merriman

Out of high school, I attending SUNY Buffalo and received my BS in Mechanical Engineering. I was hired out of college Hughes Aircraft Company, who I still work for (bought out by Raytheon). I have mostly been based in the LA area, but have done a lot of off-site assignments, such as Seattle, Valley Forge, Detroit, Rochester, Santa Barbara and presently Boulder. In the past few years I've been able to do some overseas travel to New Zealand, Australia, China, and Tahiti. The past two trips, I was able to view full solar eclipses. I get back to Rochester a couple times a year to visit family.

I guess the funny story for me would be the red sweats we had to wear in gym class. I had a way of running up stairs, that with those red sweats on, made me look like Spiderman. As you know, that name stuck for all of my high school years.