John M. Campbell

I spent nine months in England, first helping write a proposal for new work, and later helping program manager Steve Hertz start up the...

Dave Harsch was the Phoenix program manager who was in charge of coordinating the efforts of several contractors to deliver an integrated...

Theresa Covotsos was a test engineer on the TDS project. The TDS software was developed in an east coast division of our company and...

This poem stars Jim Fain, an ex-Air Force general whom Northrop Grumman hired to help us win a program important to the survival of our...

Bruce Hopke was a tall man who provided IT hardware support to our project. When he found a better opportunity elsewhere, I prepared this...

Mike Pearson was a senior software engineer on a project I was leading. The project brought two systems together in a process called...

Dennis Calcaterra was in charge of maintaining the hardware database on our project. We were contractually obligated to keep track of the...

Don Mirrione managed the subcontract Northrop Grumman had with General Dynamics for us to produce two software subsystems. As the project...

Ron Bero was a fellow engineer whom I learned was a serious golfer. My grandfather was a club pro in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and he taught me...

I was mystified when a former fighter pilot, retired Air Force Colonel George Watts, was selected as program manager of our contract with...

I spent most of my career in engineering with a company called TRW, Inc. before it was gobbled up by Northrop Grumman (pun intended)....

I arrived in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England in the spring of 2009 to replace David Burke as he retired to Florida. David had spent a...

I wrote this poem for Angela, our project business manager, as she was leaving our project for a new opportunity. The Peter mentioned in...

I wrote this poem in frustration. At the time I was managing a team who installed a new system that ran 24-hours-a-day. The system was...

Pete Blodgett was a tiny, rotund man with a huge intellect who loved the finer things in life. He was sent to Denver to help grow the...

When writing proposals for new work with the government, we engineers loved designing new systems to meet a set of requirements. But most...

I read this poem in a bar in Morrison, Colorado where we met to celebrate Jane Lobby's retirement. She was an engineer who had devoted...

Jesse Seals was a smart young man who tested our software before we released it to Operations. He showed up every day in a T-shirt and...

This is my first poem as an engineer, written about the Northrop B-2 Bomber project. At that time, when we wanted to make copies of a...

This poem describes the trip to Bath from London in the rental car with my family. I learned to drive in Australia when in high school in...