John Floyd

Dublin Core

Title

John Floyd

Description

John Floyd was born in Sand Mountain, AL. He started at Thiokol as a technician in the Physical Test Lab working on Data Reduction. He became an Assistant Engineer and Chemist in the Engineering Department. He left Thiokol to work for Brown Engineering. He earned his BS at Athens College, and then his Master's degree at Georgia Tech in Information & Computer Science. He did programming at Brown including astronaut schedulling for the Apollo Lunar missions. He left Brown to work in the commercial business sector. He returned to Teledyne Brown as Chief Information Officer and retired in 2003. He has also worked at Drexel, Jim Walter Corporation, and as an Adjunct Professor at UAH. John also has an MBA.

Source

University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama

Date

2019-4

Rights

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Format

.MP4

Language

en

Type

Interviews
Video

Oral History Item Type Metadata

Interviewer

Webb, Glen

Interviewee

Floyd, John

Duration

0:12:23

Files



Citation

“John Floyd,” The UAH Archives and Special Collections, accessed November 16, 2024, https://libarchstor.uah.edu/oralhistory/items/show/200.