The Gears That Turn the Wheel that is Ray Guarino

Although I have earned an A.A.S. degree in Electronic Instrumentation Technology and a B.S. degree in Organizational Management, my life's work has been striving to become the best "automologist" I could possibly be.

I've held jobs as an auto parts counterman, machinist, plastic injection molder/mold-maker, and an auto electric rebuilder. My life-long love of all things mechanical, coupled with this job experience, has given me a "No Fear" attitude when it comes to taking things apart and (hopefully), fixing, modifying, and ultimately improving them design-wise and functionally.

I have also worked in the R&D area of the Engineering Department at Leviton Manufacturing as an electronic tech and a corporate metallurgist. I have been employed by Nassau Community College in the Engineering Department as a professional faculty member for the past nineteen years.

I'm an avid Hot Rodder, motorcyclist, competition dart player, marksman, and most importantly a devout family man with a wife of twenty-one years and two beautiful daughters, ages fifteen and eight.

Since I was seven years old I was playing around with discarded cars in the driveway, which inevitably led to building go-carts, mini bikes and eventually my own cars from junk parts. I have always prided myself on being able to take a discarded part and make it useful, or create something I needed using the spare parts I have acquired. Short lengths of tubing, end scraps of metal, oddball components, and even ceiling fans have been integrated into my motorcycle and automotive projects as alternatives to store bought products.