My name is Kirk M. Spruiell and I am originally from Odessa, TX. God has blessed me. Had I remained in Odessa, I would not have met my wife of thirty years, Deborah. We have two grown children, Jennifer married to Greg Hart with our grandson Maddox and Michael who as of now is still a bachelor.

I went into the USMC immediately out of high school and was fortunate enough to have my orders to Vietnam terminated by President Nixon. I was trained as a mechanic on aviation guns and that set my career, I loved repairing things.

I spent a year in Dallas, TX, after being discharged from the Marines. I drove a truck and really could not stand being in Dallas. So, we moved out to Odessa. There I spent the next 6 years working at various oil field related jobs, finally ending up on the drilling rigs. I spent 2 years working for Parker Drilling in Thailand. I was able to take my family with me and we lived in Perth, Western Australia. After coming home, the oil well drilling was in a steady downward spiral and I turned back to equipment repair. The oil field though continued too decline and we were forced to moved back to Dallas.

I started repairing refrigeration equipment and ended up working for Dallas ISD. I decided to give the oil field another try only this time in East Texas. We moved to Montabla thinking that everything was going alright. It turned out to be another non-lasting boom and I quickly changed employment to a Correctional Officer for TDCJ-ID. I worked at the Michael's unit, the Chase Moore unit, and the Coffield unit. A person with a repair mentality has no business working in a correctional facility. So back to the oil field, I went. After about six months, it went down again.

I went back to the air conditioning and refrigeration profession. I worked it until 2000. I, then, was injured to the point that heavy lifting and pulling were not possible. I retrained to repair computers and networks at Trinity Valley Community College Palestine campus. It only took me 30 years to get my Associates Degree, but in May of 2002 I graduated. In November of the same year, I was hired by TVCC to take care of the computers on the Palestine campus. I worked for TVCC  for 4 years  and gain a tremendous amount of practical experience in the networking field. In the summer of 2006, I was able to work a little part-time at Grapeland ISD. In October of 2006, I was offered and accepted the position as the Network Administrator.