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About the author: Marcia Wilbur
I’m from Norwich. My father and grandfather were born in Montville. We had businesses to employ our neighbors. My father’s speaker company ACR Manufacturing made the HLX speakers in the 70s and 80s. By the early 80s we sold wire and were 2nd only to Monster cable. Against my father’s will, I wanted to go to college. I left. Six months later, my father passed and I could not find my way home.
I lived in Las Vegas for 5 years. A terrible place. Just like downtown. I learned everything I could about tech. I made it home in Dec 1998 to corruption and economic downfall. I graduated, and after my 4 year old was bullied by his teacher (the sister of my sister’s ex-boyfriend) and suspended at 4 years old, learning I would only make 33k a year in Norwich, I headed back to Arizona where I knew guys at Motorola making 75/hr plus overtime.
My first job was at Pearson. Was NCS – the scantron sheet company. I ended up as an intern at the Free Software Foundation, volunteered at the Electronic Frontier Foundation right after college. I worked at Microchip where I learned electronics and robotics. I went on to consulting at TSYS, child of visa, Computer Sciences Corporation HRIS software, and the Arizona Department of Education, Department of Revenue, Arizona State University, University of Phoenix among others. I worked in transportation, creating digital training and managing the learning management systems at Veolia (supershuttle), Gannett News, among others. Once I had my foot in the door at Intel, they hired me for consulting gigs continuously. I learned manufacturing processes, AI, more embedded systems and Confidential computing (cloud VM security).
I came home to share. I taught coding and robotics at 3 elementary schools and Kelly. I opened a short lived makerspace at Tally Ho. I want this town and the townspeople to live in a peaceful, solid economic state. We can grow. We can prosper. I was taught from a young age that this is our hometown, our responsibility and our neighbors.
Remember, I’m here for you. I don’t want to be in politics, I don’t want your money. I just want to give back. I’m a Wilbur – your neighbor. Remember, this is our town. Our future. We can learn from each other.