Who is Nick Holland?
Location (Current):
St. Clair Shores, Michigan, 48081
United States of America
Lived most of my life in south-eastern Michigan, with two years spent
in Plano, Texas, and four years in Michigan's glorious Upper Peninsula.
Interests:
Motorcycles, automobiles.
Science, technology.
Computers (you probably knew this).
History, especially of science and technology.
Formal Education/Work: (it's a fine line between work and education)
Grosse Pointe South High School, 1980-1984
Michigan Technological University, 1984-1988 Bachelors of Science,
Electrical Engineering
Heathkit Electronics: Worked as a salesperson and technician and later
as a systems engineer
After school and summers: Nov. 1982 to Aug. 1984.
School Breaks and summers: September 1984 to November
1988
Full-time, full pay, Systems Engineer: December
1988 to March 1992
Michigan Tech Academic Computing Services: Student Consultant
for special projects and later, Student Programmer for special projects
School years from 1986 to November 1988.
Self-employed Network Engineer: April 1992 to February, 2005.
Back to the real work world:
- Burns and Wilcox: March 2005 to August, 2007.
- Netlink: Aug 2007 to Jan 2011
- GE: 2011 to Jan 2014
- Member Driven Technology: May 2014 to current