I have degrees in Aero Space, Electronics and Computer Science. I have worked in materials research at a jet engine manufacturer, ran the engineering lab for a small company that made heat exchangers for automotive and aero space applications, was a product line engineer for a company that made process control instrumentation for nuclear power plants, worked for a telecomunications equipment manufacturer doing product safety/EMC/telecom design & approvals, worked as a reliability/safety engineer for a company that designs signalling systems for the rail roads, worked as a mission assurance engineer for a company making fiber optic gyro navigation systems for space applications and currently work as a new product introduction engineer for a company making electronic counter measure products for the Navy.
I have been very fortunate in my 30+ year career to have had the opportunity to do a lot of different things and find it more enjoyable to be involved closer to the manufacturing and systems side of things than in pure design work. I have been a manager but was not happy doing that work so I look for senior level individual contributor positions now.