Who Am I?
I am (among other things):
- Augustus Percival Lowell
- Gus
- Augiep P.
- A middle-aged man
- A husband with a working professional wife
- The father of two boys in public elementary/middle school
- Co-owner (with my wife and the bank) of a house and some woods
- An engineer, co-founder of a consulting group specializing in sensor-based systems for medical, biotech, and industrial instrumentation
- A theatrical lighting designer, set designer, and technical director
- A bad guitar player and a good singer
- A resident of rural New England who has nonetheless lived at various times in locations as diverse as Boston and Florida and the Silicon Valley, in cities and in suburban sprawl.
- A former Air Force officer who launched satellites into space
- A graduate of a public elementary school, a private prep school (thank you scholarship), and a world-class university (thank you ROTC)
- A mean soccer fullback and a mean baseball catcher (who, alas, couldn’t hit a curveball…)
- A former volunteer firefighter
- An Eagle Scout
- An American
- The eldest son of the black-sheep scion of the black-sheep branch of a Boston Brahmin family
- The child of an RN and a machinist/welder/mechanic/truck driver/junk man/entrepreneur
- The grandchild of a Zoology professor and an artist, of a boat builder and a homemaker
My life has taken me from rural New England to Boston to the Florida spaceport to the Silicon Valley of California and back.
My career has taken me from cutting lawns and cordwood to being a janitor and a dishwasher to military service to the Fortune 100 to bootstrapped startups to venture-backed startups to independent consulting.