Louisville (pt2)
Left-Brain
The Job
The remote position I took when we moved to Louisville ended up being the last position I would hold with the the company before retiring in October of 2023.
It ran from 2013 to 2023 and involved managing the support arm for our contract with Wells Fargo to supply onsite personnel to feed and care for all the copiers we had at their facilities across the country.
It was interesting how this last position leveraged the skills I'd pulled together over the years. From being in and out of people management to technical support, trouble shooting and programming.
My "snapshot" resume from my time at EBM--that short-term job I got in 1981 just to make ends meet--really highlights the diversity in the number of opportunities I had with that company over the years.
It was a great career and I'll always be thankful to the companies along the way that continued to afford me the opportunity to stay gainfully employed and keep taking care of my family.
The Company's Lineage
| 1958 | Electric Business Machines is started by an energetic entrepreneur named Al Taylor. |
| 1981 | I started with EBM repairing Canon liquid copy machines. |
| 1990 | EBM is Purchased by Hillman Company. A regional holding company. |
| 1992 | Hillman is acquired by Alco Standard Corporation. |
| 1994 | Alco rebrands itself to IKON Office Solutions. |
| 2008 | Ricoh acquires IKON as a wholly owned subsidiary. |
| 2012 | IKON is rebranded to Ricoh to complete the assimilation. |
Right-Brain
The Dream That Won't Die
With retirement looming on the horizon, I reconfigured the Guest House office by building a desk specifically to serve as the nerve center of a new studio.
I upgraded my 40-year old EV Sentry 100 studio monitors with a pair of Adam Audio T7Vs (great upgrade by the way) and permanently retired the no longer supported Roland VS-700 digital control surface.
The studio of today (here in 2026) is exactly what I need it to be for me. And occasionally with a musician friend or two.
Gone are the days of spending every night listening to someone else trying desperately to complete their own magnum opus.
From here on out, this is going to be mostly a solo gig.