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Arthur W. Blackburn
was born
in Sherman, New York. When
World War II broke out his father went off to War and he was sent to
live with his grandmother and uncle on the family farm in Westfield, New
York. When the war ended his
family came out to Los Angeles, California where both his mother and
father took positions as college professors at USC.
When Arthur entered High School the family moved to the community
of Westchester which is near the Los Angeles Airport.
During his last year
of High School Arthur worked
summers as a Tool & Die Maker.
Upon graduation from High School, Arthur went on
active duty in the U.S. Navy. This tour of duty started at Naval
Submarine School, New London, Connecticut.
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After completing Naval Submarine School he first served on the USS
Remora (SS487) and then on the USS Tunny
(SSG282). His main duty role was as an Electronic Technician. A
qualification for a submariner was having a good introduction to
understanding complex systems. Upon
completing an active duty tour Arthur worked nights as a
Tool & Die Maker (Douglas Aircraft) while attending college as an
Engineering Major during the day.
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Later on Arthur sold life insurance for New York Life in the evenings while
during the day he attended college.
One day Arthur
got the opportunity to use his navy experience and
education while getting paid to learn at JPL.
Due to the man power freeze at NASA his position was as a
consultant. During the next
ten years he would be a consultant to companies such as: Litton Data
Systems, Litton G&C, Air Research and American Laboratory.
The work load became too much for one engineer so Arthur
started an engineering company.
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Systems Evaluation, Inc. (SEI) was formed to provide Design Assurance
Engineering support to both the industrial community and governmental
agencies. This support grew to include the fields of Design; Design
Analysis, Design Assurance, Component Engineering, and Integrated
Logistic
Support
, including Life Cycle Cost, Reliability, Maintainability and Safety.
Complete
standardization efforts including the preparation of Source Control
Drawings or the writing of a single component specification.
SEI
grew both in size and reputation with offices in El Segundo CA, San
Diego CA, Walnut CA, Westlake Village CA, and Arlington VA.
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Evaluation Software was formed with the primary objective
of providing computer software to complete Reliability Analyses on
the PC. Some special needs client software was also developed.
This included the development of the RELPLUS programs. RELPLUS
was written in SQL and C and then in 4GL and Visual C. The last version
was in FoxPro and Visual C. Special needs software was developed in
Visual C and SQL.
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