So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.
How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?
I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.
As an engineer, you learn there is a solution to every problem. It may take you a while, but eventually you're going to find it.
My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could've done differently, see what you could've said.
I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'
We have a lot of systems here on board the space station, and we can't call a repair man when one of them breaks.
Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.
I have no people reporting to me and don't expect to. My competency is in the tech realm.