Experience Solving Problems
Paul Welch jumped right into solving problems while still in college. He was recruited by Grumman Aerospace Corporation to work on the final testing of Lunar Excursion Module #1, and solved the last problem at 2 A.M. and GAC shipped LEM#1 to Houston later that A.M. One week later, Paul went to Emerson Electric in St. Louis, MO as a Senior Engineer developing a fully automated oscilloscope (DC to 100 MHZ) and a Matrix Switching System (The Brain) for a fully automated computerized system that tested the avionics of fighter jets.
He was also asked to solve problems at the major Air Force Bases. In Paul’s spare time at Emerson, he worked with Barnes Hospital to develop the first automated Electrophoretic Densitometer, and took Quantum Mechanics at Washington University.
Paul returned to New York after being recruited by PRD Electronics as a Project Engineer developing a Navy version of the same building blocks he helped develop at Emerson Electric which made the automated Air Force System version for the Air Force.
While working at PRD, he was recruited by his father-in-law to join his company which built Science Laboratories and sold other types of school equipment. After almost two years of being recruited, Paul agreed to switch careers and join the company. The next seven years were spent designing and selling laboratories used for teaching purposes, at the high school, college, and university levels and also testing labs used by Commerce, Industry, Utilities and Government Agencies. Paul also designed and built laboratories used by hospitals and healthcare facilities along with many different types of research labs – his diverse knowledge of [S.E.T.] allowed him to be uniquely successful in this field.
Paul began his own company in the Recession of 1979. The new company focused on Fast Track, Design and Build and No Change Order Projects for clients who were privately funded- all work was negotiated not bid. The company provided all Owner Representative Services [ O.R.] needed to very quickly bring projects from the concept stage thru physical completion and commissioned into service. This firm is still operating more than thirty years after it began.
Focusing on Renewable Energy
After losing his daughter to brain cancer, Paul thought about what many different scientists had told him over the past decades, “Fossil fuels are killing or seriously damaging all of us.” He began his own research in 2005 and became convinced that what those bright scientists had been telling him was correct. Paul began his mission in 2009 which is to get as many people to eliminate or seriously reduce their use of Fossil Fuels as quickly as possible.
The two firms owned by Paul, The Renewable Energy Home LLC [Residential Projects] and Laboratory Construction Inc. DBA Space Innovators (all projects that are not residential) were totally focused on Paul’s mission. Both firms developed during one of the worst economic times in American history the ability to design and build:
- These new homes can come with no energy bills, and zero carbon emissions. These homes can be:
- Affordable, and
- Middle Class / Luxury Homes
- New, low-rise, properly sited mixed use communities that have Zero Carbon Emissions and no energy bills
- Convert most existing non-residential buildings more than twenty-five years old, located in four season climates, and reduce their fossil fuel usage by more than fifty percent (50%)
Because of the U.S. economic meltdown that began at the end of 2007 the conditions for the poor and struggling middle class started to accelerate. The ability to reduce or eliminate energy bills for those of greatest financial need compelled Paul to co-found a Not-For-Profit corporation.
Conclusion
Paul looks back at more than sixty years of life experiences since he first began his engineering career and the mission that he pursues is intended to help improve the quality of life for as many people as possible in his remaining time.
Paul brings to every team effort an intense desire to succeed, people skills, the ability to mentor and train others, motivate others and communicate well. He has demonstrated success with starting and growing businesses. He takes every adversity and views it as a challenge that can be converted into one or more opportunities. Paul believes in vision and dreams but feels they are worthless until they are made into reality. He can take chaos and uncertainty and transition these positions into stability. Paul has learned that [S.E.T.] can help provide the solutions to challenges, but it is the people working together to accomplish the goal of a common cause, that will get the goal accomplished.