Scott Langley's

Biographical Timeline

1968

• Born in Ontario, Oregon to parents Keith and Diane Langley.  Parents own and operate a farm outside of Nyssa, Oregon.

1986

• Graduated from Nyssa High School - Valedictorian.
• Awarded and accepted four-year Navy ROTC scholarship.
• Spent 2 summer months in Germany through a high school exchange program.
• Entered Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, as a freshman majoring in Nuclear Engineering.

1987

• Spent one month of the summer aboard the submarine U.S.S. Cincinnati for NROTC practical training.  After this, I decided to disenroll from the Navy ROTC program.
• Changed college major to Electrical Engineering.

1988

• Spent the summer working at Disneyland, in Anaheim, California as a host in merchandise services (sales clerk) in the Emporium on Main Street U.S.A.

1989

• Spent the summer working at Advance Electronic Diagnostics, Phoenix, Arizona, as a mechanical assembler.

1990

• Spent the summer studying the German Language in Kassel, Germany through a college exchange program.

1991

• Graduated from Oregon State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Entered graduate school at Oregon State University in the Electrical Engineering Master's program.  Major: Communications/Signal Processing.  Minor: Computer Engineering.

1992

• Volunteered a considerable amount of time with Project Vote Smart in Corvallis, Oregon.
• Began thesis on Decision Feedback Equalization with major professor, Jack Kenney.  Began design and layout of integrated circuit for thesis.

1993

• Submitted integrated circuit design for fabrication.

1994

• Accepted student research position to lay out two GaAs mixed-mode integrated circuits.
• Volunteered with Project Vote Smart in the fall to program an auto-respond e-mail application to deliver election information to users.

1995

• Submitted GaAs integrated circuits for fabrication.
• Accepted part-time position with Project Vote Smart as director of their BBS and Internet services.  Moved to full-time.

1997

• Left Project Vote Smart at the end of June to pursue a career with more income potential.
• Decided to forgoe finishing master's degree in Electrical Engineering for now because I found software development to be more interesting.
• Began self-study of modern programming languages: C++, Visual Basic, Java; and software engineering techniques.

1998

• Starting in late November, began experiencing repeated ear infections and nearly constant headaches lasting for about 8 months.

1999

• Worked part-time as a contract Java Programmer for Camas, Inc., in Corvallis, Oregon.
• Had surgery in August for a deviated septum that finally relieved much misery.
• Moved to Vancouver, Washington, in October where I worked for 6 months as a software engineer at Jenkon International.

2000

• Moved to the Bridle Trails neighborhood of Kirkland, Washington, in April to take a contract Java programming assignment with NetLeaf Technologies - first in Bellevue, and later in downtown Seattle.

2001

• Let go as a contractor in Seattle - the time of the Dot Bust! Ended up moving back in with my parents in Nyssa, Oregon, until I found another job, which was the ...
• Systems Administrator for Rural Network Services in Weiser, Idaho. It's kind of an interesting job, but I long to get back into programming.

2006

• Moved to Boise, Idaho to be closer to my nieces and nephews and a job with Adecco Technical / Hewlett Packard working as an I/O Test Engineer on HP's low-end laser printers. Somewhat interesting - lots of analsyis of the latest networking protocols and some script writing.

2007

• Finally landed a programming job in the Biotech / Medical Research area for which I had to move back to Seattle. Currently writing Java web applications for the management of data from AIDS vaccine trials at the Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research & Prevention (SCHARP) which is part of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.