Rex A. Hoover
Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Son of Gerald Elmer Hoover
and Alice Auretta (Swope) Hoover
Brother of
Alice Marie (Hoover) Cain, Mike Hoover, [private sister (1930s - unknown)], Howard Hoover, Glenn Hoover and David Hoover
Father of
Robert Hoover
Died 2010s.
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Biography
Rex as born in Altoona, PA. His family moved to Akron, OH when he was 2 years old. He attended Saint Mathews Catholic school through 8th grade, and completed 9th grade at Springfield High School. He dropped out of 10th grade and joined the US Navy at age 17.
U.S. NAVY
- Boot Camp August/September 1959, Great Lakes Illinois
- Construction Electricians School, Port Hueneme California
- 80 hours of basic electrical theory
- 80 hours of telephone communications system theory and operation
- 80 hours of AC and DC motors and generators theory and operation
- 80 hours of home and building light and power wiring.
- 120 hours of power transmission and distribution.
- Graduated 1st in Class of 21
- Mobile Construction Battalion 10, Guam, M.I. & Adak, Alaska
- carpenter
- kitchen cabinet maker
- industrial building wire installer
- lineman
- amateur radio operator
- U.S. NAVY - Shore-based Nuclear Power Program
- 76 hours of mathematics (trigonometry, algebra, logarithms)
- 55 hours of classic and modern physics
- 64 hours of nuclear reactor engineering
- 59 hours of electrical engineering
- 72 hours of mechanical engineering
- 46 hours of health physics and process control
- 125 hours of electronics and solid-state devices
- 133 hours of nuclear instruments
- 278 hours of process and nuclear research instruments
- 718 hours of instruction and on-the-job training operating the SM-1 Army Nuclear Power Plant
- Graduated 8th in Class of 22 from Nuclear Power Plant Operators Course
PM-1 Nuclear power Plant at Sundance Wyoming
- Control Room Operator and Instrumentation Specialist
PM-3A Nuclear Power Plant at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
- Instrumentation Shop Supervisor
Naval Nuclear Power Unit at Fort Belvoir Virginia
- Instructor
- Wrote and taught courses of instruction on Radioisotope Powered Devices and Nuclear Data Multichannel Analyzers
- Taught PM-3A Replacement Crew training
IBM East Fishkill, New York. June 1968 - May 1972
- Developed new analytical techniques for the Scanning Electron Microscope to facilitate the development and manufacturing of microelectronic devices
IBM Manassas, Virginia, June 1972 - June 1992
- Developed new techniques to design high-speed, high-density integrated circuit devices
- Managed product Quality Assurance and Failure Analysis departments
TriTek Corp., July 1992 - April 2015
- Founded new company to develop, manufacture and market a fully-integrated, computer-controlled optical microscope
Sources
- Rex A. Hoover, Memoirs
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