MAIN PROFILE: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbroadwell

I'm one of those rare engineers that started building my experience base by 12 years old. When I'm not actively employed in a technical job that suits me, I'm off working as a handyman, so the real skills with working with tools and my hands I took with me to college. Before then, working tech support, I spent much time as the 'third' level guy that got handed the 'stumpers' or worked directly with engineering departments. Before then, the Navy taught me much about electronics and communications. Very early on, I found I had much in common with and was able to converse with engineers. While I've only recently added the formal degrees to my name, working on level with designers, builders and creators has never been a difficulty. This makes me an odd contradiction of an 'Experienced' entry level engineer. I mention my early experience due to having a father that brought home 'scrap' hardware from the mainframe era for me to diagnose, disassemble and ultimately render into recyclable metals. Many of his company picnics were funded in this way, as silly as it sounds I've only built on the knowledge of parts, hardware and how to diagnose the things that fail since then in a long series of technical jobs.

Maybe at times I take the axiom that 'there is no impossible' too far when I'm taking apart old microwaves for high voltage parts to make systems ... but then if you want an mid-level engineer that has no box and is great at 'un-sticking' research groups, you might want to consider me three times.