A first generation American. Youngest of ten children, born of Polish immigrant Parents in Toledo, Ohio on June 25, 1930. Retired from forty years in the aerospace and defense industry - thirty years with IBM and ten years with McDonnell Douglas.

a. U.S. Air Force training in the Airborne Radar Mechanics Course, from A.C. and D.C. circuit analysis through microwave transmission - twenty six weeks of theory and sixteen weeks of airborne radar sets equipment. (1949-1950)

b. Served during the war in Korea as a U.S. Air Force Technical Instructor, teaching twenty-five-man classes in electronics fundamentals. Course instruction covered seven weeks, from the ninth through the fifteenth week of the total twenty six weeks of prescribed Electronics Fundamentals. (1950-1952)

c. Customer Engineer in IBM's Data Processing Division, servicing electro-mechanical and electronic digital data processing and calculating equipment installed in commercial business offices. Electronic digitial computers included the IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch and the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Calculator. Previous related USAF training and experience was accepted by IBM as equivalent to a Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, a pre-requisite for that specific position of employment. (1953-1957)

d. Field Engineer in IBM's Federal Systems Division, providing field maintenance and depot repair and operations support for the offensive analog radar bombing and navigation computer system installed on B-52 aircraft. Technical Services support was performed at U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) and Logisitics Command (AFLC) bases. (1957-1981)

e. Senior Staff Assistant/Project Control Specialist in Project Control with IBM Federal Systems Division and McDonnell Douglas Technical Services, developing work breakdown structures for budgeting and pricing multi-million dollar contracts and contract proposals (1977-1993). The last one of these was development of a work breakdown structure, including a dictionary of cost accounts, for budgeting and pricing development, fabrication, test and assembly of the Laboratory and Habitation Modules for the International Space Station.

f. Author of "A Capitalist Manifesto"
Copyright 2009 by Bernard Palicki
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009903013
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