Yup with atlas! My official title is project engineer here, but they are slowly grooming me into a PM. They let me have full reign on that project, make money or lose money it all falls on me. Lucky my foreman on that project is brilliant. He installed that Lutron package like a champ...I think you'll be happy you missed that walk through. He said there were about 11 Gilead people there for it...and they all looked thoroughly annoyed with the new system. It really is freaking cool though, what it's capable of that is.

 

Yeh same here, love the coastline. Great surf, hiking and views. Ive lived everywhere and this has been my favorite spot by far besides being out of the country. Then Costa Rica takes my vote. Only thing that bothers me around here is cost of living, but I deal with it.

 

I'm guessing you don't make it to the San Mateo meet working that late?

 

I hear you man. Its actually cheaper for me to live in santa cruz county than in san mateo.
My woman and I are thinking about moving to ben lomond boulder creek area on highway 9 cause our lease is almost up.
I pay 1200 for a 1 bedroom by the beach.
A 1bedroom in sunnyvale next to 237 and lawrence.....2900 a month.

My family lives in st martin in the carribean and I would love to live there when I retire or if there was any kind of work that I do over there but there really isnt besides hotel maintenance.

 

Haha yea the day crew here are kind of lazy and dont care about a lot of things. They pass down alot of the **** to us they dont want to do.
the only reason I ask about that lighting system is my boss told me to get with someone from atlas and get familar with it.

Its just two of us on swing from 3 to 11 and the guys who are here doing the electrical are pretty busy.
Do you know matt green? Hes the guy onsite from atlas almost everyday for the whole campus. I gotts get together with him and review a project hes got going on with running power into a lab for a piece of equipment. If nothng else ill ask him when he calls me up.

Are you onsite at gilead often?

 

Nope. Was thinking about one night after work cause ive seen it goes on until midnight sometimes.....but im tired by then and have to commute an hour back to capitola lol.

 

You're so close to the meet too lol.
But yeah I know Matt very well. I did some CAD permit drawings for him today for Lincoln 101. He wasn't my foreman out there though. The guy who understands the system the best is Adam. He'll be out there again once I get the remaining fixtures that need to get installed show up. He was working swing on this build for a couple months. He's the guy you want, he knows it better than anyone. He's back on normal work days now. Matt would be a good starting place to get something like this set up formally though. I don't want to discredit Matt. He might know it pretty well. Personally I only see how the system functions on paper. I'm still waiting for my training too lol

 

Hmmm adam adam......there was one guy here with short curley hair and a scruffy face. Taller and skinny. He showed up for the swing shift a month or 2 back. Might be him. He seemed like the lead to the other guy that was working with him.

Ill find someone one of these nights to have them show my coworker and I incase anything pops off.

Im sure ill see you around. If you ever see my car take a pic and post it in the bay area spotted section lol. Black hawkeye lowered a lil on rota gforces. Tinted heads and tails.

Hope to see ya around soon! I still need to tour 101 lincoln.

 

So matt is hooking us up with adam to review the lighting system lol.

 

Haha nice! This training is going to cost me labor money!! You better learn it real well and fast lol. No do-overs . But yeah that's Adam you described. Super cool freaking dude. I got lucky he was my foreman on that one. I probably won't be back till it's all said and done, unless there is a job walk prior to that. But I do think I remember seeing a black hawkeye from afar there before. You should try and make it to the meet sometime. Last week was my first time. I hate being the new guy lol

 

Lol just remember to leave plenty of money budgeted for punch walk items us engineers are sticklers sometimes after a TI.

ill try to see whats up the next night its goin on. When does it come about?

And whats your name btw? Im Forrest.

 

My name is Jeff, good to meet you. They go on Mondays and it's kind of a last minute thing. I guess the best bet would be to check that thread on Monday. It's the San Mateo one at Osha. And I don't think you'll find too many problems there. Were a legit shop and got smart electricians. If you find something off it was probably existing haha

 

Haha well nice to unofficially meet ya too Jeff! I dont doubt your guys skills im just saying I know one of our guys will ***** about something. Atlas pulls our asses out of more stuff than you can imagine just ask matt lol. He gets an email from one of us about 3 times a day!

Ill keep an eye out on the meets section.
Are you thinking about coming to esx in santa cruz this saturday? Free food and drink and I think were going on a drive after.

 

Glad you like our services. We like working there. I'm going to the city for the weekend. My gf lives there and she has our whole weekend lined up....oh boy. My subie isn't exactly road worthy right now either. It drives, but not well at all. I'd like to make it out to the coast for something like this soon tho. I need her optimal before I can start punishing it again. Pescadero creek road is by far my favorite road I've found around here. Going near dusk when all the cyclist have cleared off is the best.