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Bill Meehan strongly believes in studying what makes us tick. Many do not live up to their potential because they never really understand what their natural advantages are, he maintains. "We tend to look for careers that we covet vs. do the things that come naturally to us."
Meehan has done just that. He was good at math and liked to build things as a child. But he also had an artistic side. He played in a rock band and had a poem selected as his graduating class poem. He eventually combined his two talents to become an engineer, teacher and writer.
He has essentially had three separate full-time careers and one part time: Meehan worked for the power company for nearly 20 years, two engineering firms for 10 years and his current position working for a software company for 13 years.
Meehan is director, Utility Solutions, at Esri, a large GIS software company. His part-time career was teaching electrical engineering and computer applications at Northeastern University Graduate School of Engineering and University of Massachusetts. He has also had four books published, one of the most recent being GIS for Enhanced Electric Utility Performance. This book describes how geospatial...