David Todd

The Gutter Chronicles: The Continuing Saga of Norman D Gutter, Engineer (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Norman D Gutter graduates with his civil engineering degree, and takes a job with I.C.E. Engineering in far away Appleville. Full of great hopes to make a difference in the world, he quickly encounters the reality of having to work with strange people in a semi-disfunctional consulting engineering company.

There's his immediate supervisor, Ned O. Justice, who has trouble remembering that he has a job to do. His office mates, Peter Pan and Joe The Surly, are quite strange. Uriah Serpe, the Chairman of Founder of the company, is a charicature of the high-stressed, hard-charging aging bossman. Tank Luzano does his job well, but doesn't give Norman confidence of where the company is heading.

The city engineer of Appleville, Chowdahead, lives up to his name. Then there's the illusive J.J. Weast, of the Accounting Department. Is J.J. a man or a woman, and will Norman ever find out? And what about the purchasing manager, Yukin Stuffet, who thinks his job is to make purchasing a nightmare.

And Norman has nightmares, as he becomes his own superhero, transported back in time to solve the engineering problems of history.

THE GUTTER CHRONICLES traces Norman's first year at I.C.E. Engineering. This pokes fun at the consulting engineering business, particularly the civil engineering portion of that.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David Todd
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301102372
• Artikelnr.: 48374138

Autorenporträt

David Todd is a civil engineer by profession (37 years), a genealogist by avocation, an environmentalist by choice, and a writer by passion. He grew up in Rhode Island, where he attended public schools in Cranston and then the University of Rhode Island. In his adult life he has lived in Kansas City, Saudi Arabia, Asheboro North Carolina, Kuwait, and now northwest Arkansas since 1991. Along the way he acquired a love for history and poetry.

He currently works at CEI Engineering Associates, Inc. in Bentonville, Arkansas. He is Corporate Trainer for Engineering, which includes planning and conducting training classes and mentoring younger staff. He is the senior engineer at the company, and hence gets called on to do the more difficult projects that most of the younger engineers don't feel confident to tackle. He has recently worked on a number of floodplain studies and mapping projects. He is a registered engineer in three states, a Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control, and a Certified Construction Specifier (certification lapsed).

He has been actively pursuing genealogy for fifteen years, having done much to document his and his wife's ancestry and family history. He has been writing creatively for eleven years.