He landed the role of film projectionist at Advision studios in London, then single-mindedly worked his way into a job in audio engineering, ending up as Advision's head engineer.
Marcelo Castro, the head engineer of the pilot project, drove me to see one of the test sites in the Salar.
We interviewed a lot of potential head engineers, but nobody clicked, so I agreed to fill the need temporarily.
"The miners are going to have to take out all that material as it falls," said Andres Sougarret, Codelco's head engineer on the operation.
"They went against the norm, against the establishment," recalled Mr. Munyan, 63, now the head engineer at a sheet-metal fabricating company in Groton, Conn.
As the time went by, I learned that the "old head" engineers, who preferred the night shifts, often had difficulties — drinking or worse — to hide.
"It's like a crazy script about some Japanese guy in San Francisco with 900 questions," said the head engineer, Tim Giardina, who sounds like working-class Boston.
It was dreamed up by two employees of Daptone: the label's production manager, Mikey Post, and the studio's head engineer, Wayne Gordon.
The story of British railway workers in Kenya falling prey to two man-eating lions, "Bwana Devil" starred Robert Stack as the head engineer bent on killing the lions.
Chris Taylor, head engineer at SparkFun Electronics, which sells electronics parts for hackers and hobbyists, wants to build a blank, open-source module containing an Arduino microcontroller.
