Trained as an electrical engineer, he has a reputation among many Cubans as a plainspoken problem solver.

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He graduated as an electrical engineer but, like many other engineers, he did not stay in his field of study.

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Mr. Issa lives with distant, better-off relatives, does occasional electronics-repair work and gets a little money from an older brother, who after a 12-year job hunt, finally found work as an electrical engineer earlier this year.

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As an experienced electrical engineer, I appreciate the attention to detail in the design of the Volt, and its quality of construction.

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His economics team, headed by Jorge Giordani, an electrical engineer and development planner, is widely seen as unimpressive, though it claims to have been austere.

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Quinn grew up on Long Island, a daughter of an electrical engineer father and a social-worker mother who encouraged her interest in politics as a way to help others.

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VTech was founded in 1976 by Hong Kong's Allan Wong, an electrical engineer with a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin who had worked as a design engineer for NCR in Hong Kong.

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