Martin Geasley
was hired in London by a recruiting team from Australia on behalf of Honeysuckle
contractors Standard Telephones & Cables – Station Director Bryan
Lowe and Hugh Peach, accompanied by a NASA group from the Goddard
Space Flight Center.
Martin writes:
“My title was Ground
Communications Coordinator in the Grade of Supertech.
In 1968 with the departure
of Hugh Bergin, Comms Engineer in charge of Comms Section, I was
elevated to Communications Supervisor in charge of the Comms Section.
On transfer to the DSN
in 1975 I was reassigned to the position of Operations Supervisor until
my resignation in October 1980 when I took up a new career in the Computer
Industry as Manager of Test Operations with Amdahl Ireland Limited,
at their factory in Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland. I was subsequently transferred
back to Australia as Manager Customer Services and Field Engineering Manager.
I retired on 29th January
1995 on my 65th Birthday.” Martin notes that the
recruiting team in 1966 also selected John Saxon and Eric Gadd,
making those three the only ones to be hired from the UK in 1966. |
