Many Years of Happiness
My story with GM began in Oakland, California. It was April of 1963 and I applied for a job at Fisher Body Oakland. I was accepted and hired the next day. I went to work as an hourly rate in the paint shop, spraying prime. I worked in paint for a month or two and then was moved to the body shop.
In June of 1963, we were all transferred to the new plant in Fremont, California. I was still in the body shop building the new A cars: Chevrolet Malibu, Pontiac Tempest, Oldsmobile and Buick. We built some pretty hot cars at that plant such as, the Chevy Malibu SS 396, Pontiac GTO, The Judge and the Buick Grand Sport. I moved to the Inspection Department in 1965 and then went on salary as a line supervisor in 1966. I spent many years at Fremont, leading QWL processes and new inspection methods, always trying to make a better car with better people. In 1982, sadly, we closed the Fremont plant and our entire organization was sent all over the U.S. I wound up in Linden, New Jersey.
I was now a superintendent of quality and later became Director of Quality under Russ McCarthy. It was probably the best part of my career with GM. While at Linden, I lead the DPTV process. In 1995, I was fortunate and got to go overseas to Glattbrugg, Switzerland, where I was one of the many directors of quality systems in Europe and after that, GMIO.
So as you can guess I was in many, many divisions during my career. Fisher Body, Chevrolet, GMAD (GM Assembly Division), BOPC (Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac-Chevrolet), BOP (Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac), CPC (Chevrolet-Pontiac-Canada), GMTG (GM Truck Group), GME (GM Europe), GMIO (General Motors International Operations) and finally back to just GM in Warren, Michigan. I am now retired and living in Chico, California.
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