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The Royal Bureaucrat

I spent nine months in England, first helping write a proposal for new work, and later helping program manager Steve Hertz start up the...

The Cat Herdsman

Dave Harsch was the Phoenix program manager who was in charge of coordinating the efforts of several contractors to deliver an integrated...

There's Something About Theresa

Theresa Covotsos was a test engineer on the TDS project. The TDS software was developed in an east coast division of our company and...

The Proposal Consultant

This poem stars Jim Fain, an ex-Air Force general whom Northrop Grumman hired to help us win a program important to the survival of our...

Beemers, Condos, and Yachts

As a big fan of Warren Zevon, I love his song, "Lawyers, Guns and Money," among many others. He inspired me to write my own poem about...

A Bit of Tomfoolery

Tom Dunbar was a venerable engineer and analyst who supported the global communication system we maintained for the Navy. On our weekly...

Rhymes with Hopke

Bruce Hopke was a tall man who provided IT hardware support to our project. When he found a better opportunity elsewhere, I prepared this...

Riding the Road to Convergence

Mike Pearson was a senior software engineer on a project I was leading. The project brought two systems together in a process called...

Cruise Story

I wrote this poem during a cruise of the Caribbean I took with my sisters somewhat reluctantly. Then I met Luzvy, our server for dinner...

A Man Who Loves His Hardware

Dennis Calcaterra was in charge of maintaining the hardware database on our project. We were contractually obligated to keep track of the...

To Andrea Nadal's Boyfriend

Andrea Nadal was a personable, hard-working business office associate on our program. This office was under-staffed given the number of...

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