Kipp C. Wright
Basic Information 
- Status: Found, last updated October 6, 2006
- Location: Camden, ME
- Prior School: Groveton
- Senior Photo: See full size
- Email: Yes (see form below)
- Website: http://www.AbigailsInn.com
Bio 
October 6, 2006
It's been quite an adventure the past 20 years since I graduated, and the adventure continues. After graduating, I went to William & Mary, graduating with a Physics & Math degree in 1990. After graduating, I had to do some thinking about what to do with myself - cold war was over and there sure weren't a lot of jobs for my education. Somehow I did end up getting a position as a Research Physicist for the US Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory. I moved to Baltimore (north of), and basically for 2 years blew things up for the Army. It was fun for a bit, but got old - and after a few near misses - well time to find a better line of work. In the meantime, I started working on my masters in Physics at Johns Hopkins. But, between the job and the education route I was following, I realized I was on the path to being over-educated and un-employed. So, I turned my sites on the computer field.
I ended up landing a job back in the DC area with a company doing upper atmosphere research. So believe it or not, my physics background opened the door, but my computer skills were the way to go. I spent the next few years developing software for a military weather satellite. Well, that project pretty much wound down in 1995, and it was time to look for the next adventure. It was Iceland. I took a job with CSC as a programmer and ended up working as part of the delivery team for NATO for the Icelandic Air Defense System. I was in Iceland for 18 months, and had an amazing time. If you ever get the chance go - glaciers, waterfalls, hot springs, fishing, scuba diving (yes, scuba diving), caving (lava tubing), ... The list goes on forever.
I returned to the states in 1997 and realized that I was missing the boat on the Internet. So, again I started a new adventure with a small consulting company in 1997 and helped grow their practice from 100 people up to 300 by 2000. At one point, I was running my own consulting practice within the company with 50 billable consultants spread across 10 major clients. It was fun and quite crazy. But as with everything else, we were purchased by PSINET in 2000 and taken down with the sinking ship in 2001. Soooo, time to find something a bit more stable, and I ended up at USA TODAY. I first started as the Director leading their effort to launch their Careers Network to compete with Monster and CareerBuilder. But then, big corporate at Gannett (owner of USA TODAY) decided to buy a 1/3 of CareerBuilder, and well my job was pretty much dead. So, as good timing would have it, a position opened to run the IT shop for USATODAY.com, which I did up until 2004.
Somewhere in all this I did find time to meet a wonderful woman - Beth - who I married in November of 2001. While we were both working our tails off at our respective professions, we both started realizing that the corporate thing was not what we wanted. In the Spring of 2004, it was like dominoes. We first adopted a greyhound in March. That was eye opening, and helped us realize that it was time to slow down a little bit. Then, one Saturday afternoon in April of 2004 and after a few too many glasses of wine at Hillsboro Winery, we started laying the plans to exit the corporate life - buy a B&B. We spent the next few months looking (rather quietly). Our goal was Cape Cod, but then a hunch, a side trip, and then another side trip brought us to Camden, Maine. We were hooked - we had ocean, we had mountains, hiking, ... and a great B&B that had been in buisiness for 14 years. Sooo - we bought the B&B in August of 2004, sold our condo in Rosslyn, quit the jobs, and moved up here. Boy, what a change.
Now, we just passed our 2nd anniversary. Business is great (why I can't attend the reunion). And, in January of this year, we had our first child - Colin. He is a great little guy. However, he has started crawling - and well that is making life quite interesting - especially when we are preparing breakfast in the morning.
Well, that is enough already, I hope that I can make the next reunion. And if you ever come up to Maine, please look us up at Abigail's Inn in Camden, Maine, http://www.abigailsinn.com.
Kipp Wright
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