Jim Archibald

YA Profile Information

Full Name

Jim Archibald

First Year in YA's

1977

Years in YA

1977-78

Role in Group

Guitarist

Director(s)

Directors: Val Lindsay

Residence

Highland Village, TX USA

Family

Family: Wife - Margaret, 5 children

Profession

Profession: Electrical Engineer

Other

After playing lead guitar in the 77-78 YA's and touring the midwest and eastern US, I served a mission to Peru. When I returned I married my best friend Margaret Johnson in the SLC temple. We grew up in the same ward in Massachussetts. We have four sons and a daughter.

After graduating from BYU in electrical engineering, I earned a Masters degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in Indiana. We then moved to Clearwater, Florida where we lived for 8 years. While there I earned an MBA from the Florida Institute of technology and worked for a company called AT&T Paradyne and was awarded 4 US patents.

From 1995 to 1999 we lived in Flower Mound, Texas where the Church is very strong. From 1999 to 2009 we made our home in the Allentown, PA area. It is a beautiful place to live. In 2009 we moved back to the Dallas area where I work as a Regional Sales Mgr for a semiconductor company austriamicrosystems.

We are active in the Church and in the community. In PA I was elected to the Parkland School Board (serves 10,000 students with a $100M budget). I am active in scouts and local politics. I still love to play the guitar. It's just harder to find an audience these days ;-)

For more info, please see jimarchibald.com

History

Member for

1 year 8 weeks

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