NAME> Jim Rozen

POSTS TO RCM AS> mulligan

E-MAIL>  mulligan at advinc(dot)com <do the obvious de-spam to use>

WEB PAGE> none currently

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BIOGRAPHY
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Bio for Jim Rozen (posts to rcm as 'mulligan')

I work at IBM's T J Watson Research Center, in Yorktown Heights, NY.  I design, build,
and operate all kinds of scientific equipment.  A lot of the experiements are for
measuring magnetism of various types - our group recently built a three-axis
magnetic gradiometer for the US Navy.  Many of the experiments involve some kind
of low-temperature physics, using either liquid nitrogen or liquid helium.

Right now I'm also working a part time night job at a company that produces nylon
crane sheaves and wear pads, Licharz USA.  This lets me save up some, plus I'm
getting to learn a bit of G-code programming on the machines.  But mostly I'm
just a glorified part loader - who can read a mic!

I got my start with home shop machines when I was working for GTE as a technican,
and a co-worker sold me a 1938 vintage Atlas lathe that needed a lot of work.  At
the time the local voc-tech school had a night program for metalworking, so it
all kind of meshed.  

So basically I suppliment my engineering and electronics skills on the job with
the skills in metalworking that I've picked up along the way.  I've owned (and still
do own) a number of different lathes and milling machines for my home shop, starting
with that Atlas lathe, which fit into our kitchen hallway.  Right now I've got
a 10L SB lathe and a Hardinge UM milling machine, plus a couple of Hardinge 
lathes that are restoration projects.   I use these to work on vintage motorcycles,
most of which are BMWs.

The Jim.jpg photo shows me at home in the shop, and the Mulligan.jpg photo is my
wife, Nora Mulligan - the lady who puts up with my antics, and has provided my
posting handle on RCM by virtue of me using her ISP at home.  This is the same 
lady that some of you may have seen in the 'Bonnie Parker Mulligan' photo.  The
Mates.jpg photos shows me and my IBM co-workers, with the navy gradiometer system
in the background (phenolic cage assembly).  That's me sitting on a '69 R60US bmw
bike in bmw.jpg.  I've also used my home shop to maintain my neighbors jeep, shown 
in FordMB.jpg.

I'm 41, married to an ex-lawyer, and we have a daughter named Maggie, and two cats.
We live near the Hudson River in Peekskill, NY.  Folks can e-mail me at either of
two places, either jrr0 at watson(dot)ibm(dot)com or at mulligan at advinc(dot)com