Paul McCright is a native of Texas and has lived numerous places throughout the southern portion of the USA, from California to Florida and North Carolina. He currently resides in Asheville, NC. McCright holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University, a MS in Engineering from Arizona State University, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University. He worked as an engineer for the US Department of Energy for seven years and for the Salt River Project, a Phoenix utility, for two years. He taught for five years in the Industrial Engineering program at Kansas State