**Jaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿** @jaz@toot.wales · Apr 07, 2020, 16:29

**Jaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿** @jaz@toot.wales · Apr 07, 2020, 16:29

Jaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @jaz@toot.wales

Apr 07, 2020, 16:29

@wardy Staten Island huh, do I know you from the New York Welsh group by any chance (I'm terrible with names so forgive me if I don't recognise the name)

**John Ward** @wardy@toot.wales · 2020-04-07T17:13:30Z

John Ward @wardy@toot.wales

@jaz I was reading about you and what you do on Nation.Cymru. So I decided to enroll to Toots.Wales It's a great Site. My name is John Ward a Mechanical Engineer from Pontypridd. I Design Elevators all over the U.S. and all over the Globe.

Apr 07, 2020, 17:13 · · · ·

**Jaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿** @jaz@toot.wales · Apr 07, 2020, 17:37

**Jaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿** @jaz@toot.wales · Apr 07, 2020, 17:37

Apr 07, 2020, 17:37

Jaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @jaz@toot.wales

@wardy well, glad to have you here mate, and when this is all over would be glad to meet up in the city 😀

**Jaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿** @jaz@toot.wales · Apr 07, 2020, 18:12

**Jaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿** @jaz@toot.wales · Apr 07, 2020, 18:12

Apr 07, 2020, 18:12

Jaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @jaz@toot.wales

@wardy I'm from Llanilltud Fawr/Llantwit Major on the coast btw, been in NY since 96

**John Ward** @wardy@toot.wales · Apr 07, 2020, 20:22

**John Ward** @wardy@toot.wales · Apr 07, 2020, 20:22

Apr 07, 2020, 20:22

John Ward @wardy@toot.wales

@jaz It's beautiful down there. I have been in The U.S.A since 1989.Before then I worked for the Admiralty in Pompey (Portsmouth) on R+D on Torpedo WarfareI. I started out as a Toolmaker in a Village called Abercynon. and won a Scholarship to Cardiff Uni. I love life in the U.S. I started work here as an Engineer 3 days after I flew in.
I work on the World's Tallest Superstructures Designing the Shafts and the Logistics of Traction Engineering. As one Taff to another please be careful out there.