Category Archives: 2019

MMO Job History

  • Carpenter – summer job high school – Lunenburg MA – 1964
  • Factory hand – part time during college – Appleton WI – 1966-68
  • Track gang – Soo RR – Appleton WI – Summer 1968
  • Spray Painter – Summer 1969
  • High School Russian teacher – Newton South HS, Newton MA 1969-1971
  • Helper in bakery – Belmont MA – 1973
  • Bartender – Cambridge MA – 1973
  • General machinist – electromechanical relays – Stevens-Arnold – Boston MA – 1973-75
  • Movie theater ticket sales – Brattle Theater – Cambridge MA – 1975
  • R&D machinist – optical mirrors – Bedford MA 1976
  • R&D machinist – spectrometers/monochrometers – Minuteman Labs – Acton MA – 1976-77
  • Designer – stress gages nuclear power plants – Cambridge MA – 1977
  • Designer – spectrometers/monochrometers – Minuteman Labs – Acton MA – 1977
  • Staff engineer – biomechanics lab – artificial hips – MIT Cambridge MA – 1977-79
  • R&D engineer – micro miniature switches – C&K Components – Newton MA – 1979 -1980
  • Manager custom engineered products – switches – C&K Components – Newton MA – 1980
  • Regional sales manager – inside sales – switches – Augat – North Andover MA – 1981
  • Manager inside sales/customer service – switches- Augat – North Andover MA – 1982-3
  • Product manager – electrical devices – Augat – North Andover MA – 1984-5
  • VP customer service & order fulfillment – passive electro mechanicals – Augat – N Attleboro MA – 1986-87
  • General Manager/Plant Manager – switch division – Augat – North Andover MA – 1988-89
  • VP Marketing – core products electro mechanical devices – Augat – Attleboro MA – 1990-91
  • VP Strategic Planning & New Business Development – Augat- Attleboro MA – 1992
  • Starts consulting company Riverside Systems that morph into current Riverside – 1993
  • Business Coaching – both sole proprietorships – Cambridge MA & Hudson NY
  • Director – Massachusetts Manufacturing Partnership – Lowell MA – 1994
  • Co-director – New England Suppliers Institute – Boston MA – 1995 -1998
  • Founder/Chief Technology Office – Valuedge – enterprise software – Lexington MA – 1999 – 2004
  • Owner – Business Coach – Riverside Business Coaching – Cambridge MA and Hudson NY –  2004 – 2020
  • Co-Owner – Davis Orton Gallery – current – Hudson NY 2009 – to date
  • General Manager – YouThisMe.com – current – Hudson NY – 2013 – 2018
  • Chief Operating Officer -UTM Healthcare, LLC. – 2018 to date

6/18/2019 – work, tennis

Tuesday

Breakfast with Dave Drake at Bob’s.

UTMH team meeting. Review new website with Tony Kieraldo. Then afternoon meeting with Troy Web to review changes to software. Warren Wexelman participated remotely. Very productive. 

Doubles at Total Tennis. Not very good. My new shirt.  

8:20 pm. End of tennis

6/16/2019 – weight

Sunday

I’ve been keeping track of my weight regularly now for nearly ten years. Today marks a new low since my teenage years.

6/16/2019 219
3/24/2019 231
12/24/2018 223
1/11/2018 229
6/10/2017 232
5/5/2016 235
1/6/2015 236
9/7/2014 238
5/14/2014 241
5/30/2013 251
4/15/2012 252
11/20/2012 253
4/18/2011 243
4/9/2010 241
1/5/2010 251
8/14/2009 260

6/16/2019 – DOG, drinks

Sunday

Rained pretty much all day. Breakfast at Bob’s. Very crowded due to Father’s Day crowds. Shopping at ShopRite. Later went to Natural Foods on Healy Blvd. Mostly a putter day. 6 people in the gallery.

Halo over mashed potatoes next to us.

Japanese mushroom salad

Scene at bar at Swoon.

Drinks at Swoon with Dave behind the bar.

 

On the way home

Window display at Limner.

Dinner

 

6/14/2019 – DOG, UTMH, RBC, Narcan at HAL, tennis, drinks at Ted and Anne’s house

Friday

Spent most of the day hanging end of newest DOG show. UTMH telecon with Troy Web, Matt Almeida, David Ackerman. Migrated website from diary.markorton.com to markorton.com. 

Emily Chameides sent me a text message at 4pm:

Just had to call 911. Found someone passed out in men’s room. Greenport Rescue and HPD responded and they revived him. Glad we caught it in time.

I was in the car going to play tennis. Saw the ambulance already at the library. I responded later. She replied:

Yes. Glad they came quickly and revived him. We have narcan but I called 911 first and they came so quickly. Glad I didn’t need to administer.

I stopped by her house on 5th on my way home from tennis. She was sitting on her stoop. We chatted about the incident for a few moments, the emotional burden of finding unresponsive bodies and then deciding what to do. She and Paul have Narcan training. But she pointed out that this guy was really big and it happens that they get aggressive when revived. But the Greenport Rescue came so quickly that she didn’t need to work that over too much.

Tennis was a first outing after the trip and illness, first time in just a day shy of four weeks. Trouble striking the ball squarely. Volleying OK. Ted was like the Energizer Bunny. I was fairly dead. Only played for an 45 minutes. 

Drinks with Ted and Anne. Ted had made a big plate of deviled eggs. Shared notes of our trips. They had taken ten students from Marist to Paris for ten days. As usual the conversation was loud, abrupt, back and forth.

Ended evening with another The Closer. 

6/13/2019 – UTMH, web, tennis

Thursday

7:30 am PT with Corey Smith. Very good session. Hip feels much better. Less pain, more mobility.

Afternoon spent in UTMH meeting with Michael Queralt, Seth and David in technology review. He appears willing to help us identify better platform and new developers. Very nice guy.

Michael Queralt

Tired by end of day, but substantially recovered from illness. Constipation finally over.

6/10 – 6/12/2019 – airplane illness

Monday – Wednesday

Went to PT at 7:30 with Corey. Very good session. Came home. By 9 I was in bed chilled and feeling terrible. Temperature over 101. Head buzzing, weak muscles but no respiratory symptoms. Also constipation continued. Felt marginally better Tuesday morning. Slightly lower temperature. Spent most of day in bed. Very little appetite. Drank lots of water. Several people showed up at 1pm to hang art. Fortunately she is competent with tools. I had little to do. Karen was off at a doctor’s appointment 

Spoke with Miranda Barry via UberConference in late afternoon about Wednesday’s HAL Stakeholder event. Still no appetite and still constipated…..

Wednesday morning showed up and I felt considerably better. Weighed 220 lbs. Down from 227 just before we left for Europe on 5/20. Told Seth and David that I would come back to work on Thursday. More time in bed.

Went over to the library at 4pm for set up of event. Not a great turnout but important foundation people showed up and stayed largely til the end. Spoke at length with Richard Koskey about tennis in Hudson during the 1979s and ‘80s. He asked if I might play with him after he gets used to some new corrective contact lenses. Maybe August.

Went home and got in bed.

New at HAL

Summer reading program.

 

Costume from Mad Hatter Parade.

6/9/2019 – yard work

Sunday

On and off spent the day cleaning up the backyard.

With the long wet spring, 3 weeks in Europe, and my disinterest, the grasses and weeds flourished. Spent a lot of time cleaning deck and patio. Two big bags to compost with more to come. Need to fix rotten boards on deck and replace downspout drain.

A little gallery sitting, too.