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Fred Kelly
Fred Kelly joined COMSAT's Labs in the early 70's as a member of the computer center. In the early years Fred taught various computer technology courses to Comsat's staff at Clarksburg and L'Enfant Plaza, tuned the IBM mainframe, and created benchmark programs for computer selection. Over the years Fred worked for Comsat General on the facsimile based Intelpost project, Comsat Technology Products selling the Starcom VSAT product and creating the Starcom data service and Comsat International Ventures providing marketing, sales, technology selection and business planning support for various venture. Fred has been a supporter of Comara since its founding by attending many events.
Dan Swearingen
Dan served as a communications systems engineer with COMSAT from 1970 to 2000 except for the year he served at the newly created INMARSAT Organization in London in 1980-81. He was a system designer on the MARISAT project and spent most of his COMSAT career working in the mobile satellite area. After retiring from COMSAT, Dan spent several years as an engineering consultant and adjunct lecturer at GWU. In the first three years of retirement, he also helped the COMARA Board with the planning of its annual socials. Dan has also used his retirement for a mix of grandfathering, travel, music, and various volunteer activities.
Bob Yamazaki
Bob joined COMSAT in December 1975 after retiring from the U.S. Army as a commissioned officer.
He served initially as a systems engineer with positions at COMSAT Headquarter until he became
Director of Pacific Offshore Operations with oversight of eight Pacific Ocean earth stations.
He then moved back to Headquarters and headed up the Operations Division for Intelsat Satellite Services
with concurrent duties as U.S. Operations Representative to INTELSAT.
In 1990 he moved to COMSAT International as Director of Operations and Engineering
and remained there until his retirement in 2000.
Bob is a avid golfer, scuba diver and sailor. He is a community volunteer as well.
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