Andy Lowery

You should have stuck

with the Marines.

Yeah, the lava commercial did it though, but got me into the Navy and it was probably a better fit for me anyways, because I'm a strong engineer, strong in mathematics and physics.

And I did real well.

And the Navy is smart.

They take the best enlisted guys and say, hey, these ought to be officers.

And they put me through a program called Enlisted Commissioning Program.

And I went to University of Illinois in the mid-90s and I studied

RF, microwaves, antennas, all of these things.

But then I went back into the Navy and served another five or six years of active duty as an officer.

Never got to use much microwaves in the nuclear power plants.

It didn't really apply.

So I wanted to get into that.

When I stopped being active duty, I transitioned to reserves in 2002.

I went, let me find a company

where I can work on microwaves.

That's what I did in my college.

And so let's revisit that.

I ended up at Macom.

And Macom is an RF microwave component company that makes the pieces.