Biographical notes for Will Tallman:

Political experience:

My first campaign experience was going doing-to-door for Barry Goldwater. I worked as a Page in the Wisconsin Assembly while in college at the University of Wisconsin's School of Electronics, from which I graduated. Since that time, I have worked on various campaigns.  

My first year on the Adams County Republican Committee (ACRC) was 1994. Hazel Hoffman guided me through the first several meetings I attended and I had the privilege of starting to work the Chicken Barbecue. I served a term as the Treasurer of the ACRC; I am currently a Republican State Committee member, and President of the Adams County Republican Club. I have introduced and had a resolution passed and added to the Republican State Platform, an effort that took much collaboration. I was the chair of the Adams County Rick Santorum re-election campaign in 2006.

I served two terms on the Wellsboro Area School District Board of Education, and President of the Board my final two years. While on the Board, I came to understand the mechanisms that affect the tax rate. Additionally, I was elected to the Pennsylvania School Board Association's (PSBA) legislative council. A year later I became the elected representative to Harrisburg from PSBA's region 12.

Work experience:

- I began my career writing technical manuals for Piper Aircraft in Lock Haven on avionics and aircraft electrical systems, a good fit for my electronics background.

- I left Piper and worked for a computerized typesetting company troubleshooting huge (400 terminals) computer systems.  

- When the typesetting company left the United States, I was offered a job in the engineering department of a company that manufactures control systems for electrical distribution networks and chemical plants.   While there, I had the privilege of working on the design and development of a state of the art computerized analysis system for 500KV lines and above.  

- After these technical positions, I moved into supervision and then into facility management. This required supervising several departments and maintaining projects within budget. During this tenure I had the privilege of being in control of capitol expansions or production enhancements in excess of several million dollars.

- I now work for myself doing computer networking and telephone line improvements for small businesses here in the Hanover/Gettysburg area. I believe all employment is honorable and no job is beneath the dignity of anyone, including housing the homeless in our own home and working with Hurrican Katrina victims. We have three children who are missionaries and one in the military -- you can just imagine the level of menial tasks they are willing to accomplish -- and I want to be the one to set the example for them.