Aug 18, 2016
Episode 121- Best of featuring MIke Souza: Princeton University's Glass Man
Michael J Souza Princeton University Dept. of Chemistry Frick
Lab /Glass Shop
Job Title: Professional Specialist / Scientific Glassblower
Employment History:
Princeton University Princeton NJ 1992 - present -Hired as an
hourly employee - Promoted in 1994 to Tech Staff III
W. A. Sales LTD., Wheeling, IL 1986- 92
- Master Glassblower and Shop Foreman
- Oversaw operations at Northwestern University & The University of Chicago
Wyse Glass, Midland, MI 1986-88
-Master Glassblower
- Became business partner for small custom shop that serviced Dow Corning
-Dissolved partnership as Dow/Corning faced Chapter 11 from lawsuits involving breast implants
W. A. Sales LTD., Wheeling, IL 1980-86
-Master Glassblower
-Shift Foreman
-In 1981 the company established a contract shop at Northwestern University and I ran the shop full time at the university
Valley Design Corp. Littleton, MA 1978-80
-Master Glassblower
-Head of Glassblowing Dept.
Aldrich Chemical, Milwaukee WI 1977-78
-Completed my Journeyman program under Dieter Dammrow
W. A. Sales Ltd., Wheeling IL 1975 -77
-Journeyman at a custom shop to work more independently
Kontes / Martin, Evanston, IL 1973-75
-Apprentice at the shop where my father was Production Manager Education
-Graduated as Honor Student at Palatine High School -Attended Oakton Community College