User:Rob Power

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The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.


Currently employed as the Director of Engineering for an enterprise-management software company based in Oakland, California, Rob Power received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering in 1998 from the University of Tennessee, as well as an M.S. in Industrial Engineering and an M.B.A. in 2000. While a student at the University of Tennessee, Rob served as President of the Lambda Student Union and Chair of the Gay and Straight Political Netowrk. A Libertarian Party activist, Rob was Vice-Chair of the Libertarian Party of San Francisco and ran for Supervisor in San Francisco's sixth district in 2002. In 2004, Rob was elected as the National Chair of Outright Libertarians, the association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Libertarian Party activists and supporters. In 2007, while living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Rob married his partner of seven years, Kai-yan Lee. Rob has his EIT certification from the Tennessee SBAEE, is a senior member of the American Society for Quality, has volunteered with the Names Project (AIDS Quilt) in East Tennessee and Northern California and was co-organizer of the Commonwealth Club's 2004 panel on same-sex marriage, just weeks before Mayor Gavin Newsom started to allow same-sex couples to marry in San Francisco.*