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Norman Sindlinger
Hi! I’m Norman. I’m a retired Director of Engineering at Mattel Toys. I’m very much older than the typical author; although I’m still very much young at heart. I remain always optimistic in spite o...view moreHi! I’m Norman. I’m a retired Director of Engineering at Mattel Toys. I’m very much older than the typical author; although I’m still very much young at heart. I remain always optimistic in spite of having lived through many tumultuous events since the 1930s, right into today’s most interesting political and world events.
I always wanted to be a writer. I wrote quite a lot in high school and my first year of college at Ohio University in Athens Ohio while studying journalism.
I dropped out of college for a year prior to deciding to make a career in the Army while pursuing a BS Mechanical Engineering for four years at Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Pa.
PMC at the time was one of six so-called tin colleges graduating 2nd lieutenants. The original military school closed many years ago and reopened as significantly expanded Widener University.
Following 22 weeks of additional training at the Basic Infantry Officer School and Airborne School in Fort Benning, Ga., I was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii. After twenty-one months of active service, I was released from active duty as a 1st Lieutenant and returned to Reserve status. Obviously, I did not make the Army a career choice.
I began my civilian career as a Research Engineer at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pa. I continued basic research and product development at several other corporations became a manager of product development at two additional corporations, and a Director of Engineering at a start-up computer corporation.
I next moved from NJ to California to join Mattel and retired as one of several Directors of Engineering. During my career, my writing was almost all technical in nature.
I returned to NJ in retirement. I’m a widower and was married for forty-nine years to, Jacqueline; a wonderful woman and my best friend for nearly 50 years. I have one surviving daughter and four grandchildren. I moved from southern NJ to Pompton Plains, NJ a small town thirty miles north-west of New York City, and began writing again.view less