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Bob Hudson, CFP^(R) , EA

Some history:

Early life:  Bob was born, raised and educated in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Georgia State University with a BBS in Business Management. 

U.S. Air Force Veteran:  He is a Veteran having served for 4 years with the U.S. Air Force spending 3 of those years in Germany on an Air Force base working in the Electronics Shop maintaining a Doppler Radar Navigation System for the F-105 fighter/bomber.  (the missing 1 year was spent in an Air Force electronic school before being assigned to Germany).   The Doppler Radar Navigation System contained a Digital Computer, Analog Computer, and X-Band radar unit.

IBM:  After the Air Force, he went to work for IBM serving as a Field Engineer in downtown Atlanta. IBM transferred him to their Austin, TX manufacturing plant where he developed field performance criteria for future products.  He requested a transfer to the Vermont IBM manufacturing plant in Essex Junction (due to severe allergy complications in Austin, TX).  His last job at the Essex Junction plant was as the Performance Engineer on the largest main frame computer that IBM manufactured at the time.  He left IBM after 20 years to begin his business as a Financial Planner and providing Tax & Investment services. 

Strategic Wealth Coach:  He began his business in 1986 and loves what he does -- helping his clients achieve their financial goals and desires.  He studied and obtained his Certified Financial Planner (CFP^(R) ) and Enrolled Agent (EA) marks.  Bob believes in Education and has spent most of his life in "school" -- maybe he is just a slow learner.

Hobbies:  Bob built his first computer system in 1976.  It used a Motorola 6800 micro processor, 1K of RAM, and an operating system contained in 256 bytes of EPROM.  The input was through 16 address switches and 8 data switches.  When Bob retired this system, he had expanded it to 40K of RAM, 2K operating system in EPROM, High Speed Cassette Tape input / output device and a Memory Mapped CRT display with a keyboard.  In about 1978 Bob purchased a BASIC interperter for this computer which had been written by a new company called MicroSoft.  Bob continues to enjoy computers, specializing in building single board computers which he uses in control systems and Robotics.  Bob also enjoys working not only in hardware but also in software, especially computer languages such as:  Forth, LISP, and different varieties of BASIC.