Jim Prinkey grew up in the small town of Youngwood Pennsylvania in a blue collar family that valued strong work ethics, honesty, faith, family and the diversity of skills. Jim has been working ever since he started delivering newspapers and cleaning the public swimming pool facilities in junior high and evenings and weekends in high school at a garment factory and the local gas station. At 17 he was hired by Westinghouse as a janitor, where his father worked nights maintaining the plant's equipment and days hauling cement, sand and gravel.
Jim earned his BS from the University of Pittsburgh through evening and weekend studies, and over the years rose to the position of Plant Manager of a Westinghouse subsidiary company. After 27 years, he began turning around businesses overseas, starting in Gasny, France and later in Germany, ultimately serving as Global Controller at the Headquarters in Louisville Kentucky. He later began overseeing the chemical demilitarization effort at Aberdeen Proving Ground's Edgewood arsenal as well as a number of chemical weapons stockpile sites throughout the United States. Jim later joined his son's business TAP Construction, and helped his old government customers destroy the Syrian chemical weapons stockpile.
After retiring to their small farm in Peach Bottom township, Jim turned his passion and talent towards wood turning, and is now a member of the South Central Pennsylvania Wood Turners club as well as the American Association of Woodturners. Jim also enjoys fly fishing and fly tying.
