Randall Epstein

Searching for some friends and this popped up on Google.

I lived in Crystal Lake the majority of my early life and attended high school in Crystal Lake my Freshman and Sophomore years before moving to West Dundee and finishing high school there.

My half sister and brother live in Crystal Lake.

Only every few years. Last was in 2012.

No, been in Georgia too long.

I left Illinois in 1979 after spending 10 years with Commonwealth Edison. During that time I developed an interest in electronics and started night classes at ECC.

After leaving Comm Ed we moved to Florida where I started with the loal Cable TV company in Orlando and continued school. I earned an Associate in Science there and changed jobs to go to work for Pizza Time Theatre, the original Chuck E. Cheese company.

I was a store technician, then worldwide installer (put shows in new stores), and finally a District Technical Supevisor with stores in TN, AL, NC, GA & FL. During my tenure at Pizza Time we moved to Georgia since I kept changing planes there. Pizza Time had financial issues and was merged with Show Biz Pizza so I ended up going to work as the Manager of Education for a local Technical School in the Atlanta area that taught electronics and computer repair. That lasted for six years and the parent company of the school had financial issues and we were out of business one week before Christmas.

I found a job with a new company doing contract work in the Cable TV industry and began with them (husband and wife) doing Cable TV drafting and design work. We then got into the fiber optics arena and I learned how to splice fiber optic cable. We developed a relationship with a company called Scientific Atlanta and did a lot of work for them. After time that led to me joining Scientific Atlanta on their training team.

I did training for a couple of years and then moved into my current position as the Manager of Marketing Technical Operations. In short this means that myself and one employee support a demo room for customers where we show our latest Cable TV set-tops as well as being responsible for our technical activities when we go to trade shows. I enjoy the job as it keeps us playing with new technologies and things change constantly. Several years ago we were acquired by Cisco Systems so I've had to learn a great deal of network technology along the way as well.

Early 2011 Cisco offered an early retirement package. I originally decided not to accept it until my manager decided to tell me I had a 50/50 chance of surviving a layoff.

1969 - 1979 Commonwealth Edison - Elgin
1979 - 1982 Orange County Cablevision - Orlando
1982 - 1985 Pizza Time Theatre (Chuck E. Cheese)
1985 - 1991 Total Technical Institute
1991 - 1996 Gibson Technical Services
1996 - 2011 Scientific Atlanta (now Cisco Systems)

Went to work for Commonwealth Edison followed by a 4 year enlistment in the Air Force from 1971 - 1975.

Enjoying life.

42 years as of 4/10/2013

Caitlin - 14 daughter of Steve
Ethan - 11 son of Steve
Blake - 8 son of Rob
Bryce - 6 son of Rob

Since 1969 we've lived in IL, AZ (Gila Bend - hot), FL, back to IL, back to FL, GA since 1983.

Keith and Diane Mizwicki. Keith and I were close friends during Jr. High and High School days. I try to stay in touch but am not very good at it.

We did fly up to Quincy last summer (2012) and spent a night with Keith & Diane on our way to Wisconsin for AirVenture in Oshkosh.

Keith & Diane spent a night with us in January 2013.

Marrying my lovely wife Barbara in 1971. Having my two sons and most recently my four grand kids.

Most recently I completed something I started back in 1970. In December of 2008 I was finally able to get my Private Pilot certificate and my Instrument rating in March, 2012 so we get to go flying now and then! We're now in a partnership on a plane. I spend time on Facebook, look me up, and aviation forums.

Not one favorite place. We like a lot of places.

Not really sure right now.

Hmmm, maybe that I enjoy motorsports and raced Legends Cars for two and a half years back in 96. Or maybe the flying thing.

My ex co-workers at Commonwealth Edison and my wife call me Eppy.

Retire as soon as you can!

St. Jospehs Hospital, Elgin, IL.