day job...

[Curtin, Steven D (Steven)]

I'm an applications engineer and project manager for a satellite radio
project here at Lucent.  This is a lot more fun than the last project I did
here which was Wave drivers for PC audio.  Prior to this I was in the Music
Industry for ten years after building my first analog synth ten years
before, eventually working at Ensoniq in their R&D department.  I went to
Lucent and more mainstream communications work because I got tired of being
laid off every two years working on something to make the perfect piano
sound.  Now I can be as "weird as I wanna be" with my weekend basement
experiments (see the web page for more info).  I do feel fortunate having a
job that grew out of my hobby in music and electronics, and my "day job" and
weekend fun continue to reinforce and compliment each other.  I would
encourage someone who wants to work on making musical instruments to go for
it, it was great fun for a while.

Steve C

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Steven Curtin  
Lucent Technologies Microelectronics
ph: (732)957-2996   fax: (732)957-6878
http://www.emf.org/subscribers/curtin/
sdcurtin at lucent.com
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