The Long Watch: A Biography of Robert "Huck" Huckaby

On March 18, 1985, a kid from South Philadelphia stepped onto the yellow footprints at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. He was the smallest recruit in Platoon 1042. He had just discovered his real name. For eighteen years, he had lived as Robert Norton. The Marine Corps gave him back what he was always supposed to be: Robert Huckaby. The Long Watch is the story of what he built from that moment forward.Eighty-five recruits entered Platoon 1042. Thirty-one earned the title. From Parris Island, Huck carried the Marine's code into every chapter that followed: the slaughter floor at Hormel in Fremont, Nebraska, where a moment across a production line told him exactly where he was not going to be in twenty-five years; night classes in HTML, JavaScript, and Java after every shift; a career at the Gemological Institute of America, where he built their first online training program and made GIA one of ServiceNow's first enterprise customers; then nearly two decades at ServiceNow building a managed service vertical from zero, earning the title of ServiceNow Legend, and ultimately joining xtype as Chief Customer Officer. Running alongside all of it: his wife Kathy, a Marine and Navy Chief Boatswain's Mate with thirty-one years of service, the steady behind his steady through every chapter.This is not a book about titles. It is a record of a man who refused to quit when the road got hard, who listened to the quietest voice in the room, and who built everything from Mustangs to platform teams from the frame up. The Long Watch is for anyone who has ever stood a watch when no one was watching, started over when it would have been easier to stop, or built something worth being proud of.

Pagina's: 84, Paperback, Independently Published