His first years with the company, Bill worked in his native state of Pennsylvania in cost accounting, equipment records, and then as a purchasing agent. Soon he was off to Alaska to serve as a business manager for a road-building project associated with the Aleyeska Pipeline Project. Assignments took him all over the U. S. Then his talents as a business manager took him farther afield. From 1975-1978, he worked in Saudi Arabia on highway projects.
Two of Bill's three children were with him in Saudi Arabia. The family traveled a lot those three years, seeing much of Europe. In 1996, Bill and his wife attended a business meeting in Australia, and spent eight weeks wending their way back home. "I always tell people," quips Bill, "I got to see the world but I didn't have to wear a uniform! We weren't sent anywhere. We chose to go there."
After Green Construction closed down, Bill ran his own business in Pensacola, Florida from 1997-1998. He sold the company, disillusioned with the lack of free time. From 1998-2000 he worked as director of internal audit for Dillingham Construction, a job that took him to Turkey, Guam, and New Zealand. By then, his wife, Debby, had had enough being away from the grandchildren. In February 2000, they bought a house in Aurora Colorado. Between them, the couple has five children and eight grandchildren.
Bill was supposedly settling down, but along came the opportunity to work for Flatiron at Carquinez. "I wanted to go back out into the field and be a part of a team building a major project," he explains. Debby isn't budging, so Bill flies to Denver on the weekends.
