Update
By:
Lawrence Banks
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
After graduating from MIT with three degrees in Electrical Engineering I went to work for Hewlett-Packard Medical R&D in 1969. Also in 1969 I married Liz Stauffer (Bunnell ’65), and we had two daughters. Emily is a High School Science teacher/administrator in New Hampshire and has a son Will. Kate was a Senior Aquarist at the New England Aquarium in Boston and now lives in Ipswich, MA with her spouse Brian and two daughters Lizzie and Poppy. Liz and I divorced in 1995, and in 2003 I married Maren Judd.
At HP I initially worked on an early Computer Aided Electrocardiographic Diagnostic system. In 1976 I was fortunate to be one of seven engineers to start a new and ultimately successful business within HP in Real-time Diagnostic Cardiac Ultrasound. In 1993 I became disenchanted with R&D Management and its budgets, personnel evaluations, etc., and quit the Medical R&D Labs. I moved to HP’s Corporate Education group, first responsible for all of HP Medical R&D’s Technical Education and then for HP’s world-wide corporate Learning Management System. Retiring in 2006 from Agilent Technologies, I have been a part-time consultant in eLearning and Education Platforms for Avago Technologies for the past seven years. I finally retired “for real” this past January.
Maren and I spend our time between our two homes in Woburn, MA, and Harpswell, ME, and travel as much as we can. 2012 found us in Southern Africa on safari and we plan on seeing New Zealand and Australia in 2014. In my “spare time” I enjoy my two main hobbies of ham radio (call sign W1DYJ) and woodworking, while still drumming now and then.
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