After graduation, I was stationed by the army in Italy and German for
four years before I decided to return to graduate school here at Rice University
and I finished by PhD here in 1981.
Following my studies here at Rice,
I joined Shell Oil Company as a research engineer and spent over
34 years doing individual research and as a manager in their organization.
During my last 15 years at Shell, I also was a campus recruit, so
I had many opportunities to be on campus, to interview students, looking for
those skills that I thought would help those candidates fit best
into Shell's organization.
I was specifically interested in their leadership abilities.