100 Years for an American Dream: The Foundations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781664135017)

Hi, friends, thank you for giving me the opportunity to tell you a little bit about me, because this story will be written in first person and because you will know me much better with the reading of this book and the following that will complete the work. I was born in Potenza, Italy, and spent the first years of my childhood in Campomaggiore, then when my parents immigrated to Argentina, they took me with them and that is where I grew up, studied, formed my family, and above all, worked intensely since I was very small, with the aim of turning around a long history of deprivation. I received primary education at Domingo F. Sarmiento School, in Vicente Lopez. In high school, I had the privilege of receiving a scholarship in the ENET Henry Ford (Ford Motor Arg.), having the honor of being part of the first promotion of tecnicos mecanicos. Then I studied mechanical engineering at the UTN, and countless training courses in the technical and humanistic area. I had a scholarship in several areas of Ford Motor Arg., and I have worked in the engine plant in quality control, as well as in product engineering, in design. My spirit of freedom and independence led me to give up and found my own factory of auto parts, to which over time I have been adding other companies of different activities. I have always had the restlessness and the curiosity to travel and to know other cultures, to open the mind continuously to direct knowledge. In the year 2000, I made, of my own will, another great decision, that of immigrating again, this time to the USA, to close a circle that started with my grandparents 100 years ago! Salvatore Gerardo Traficante Buenos Aires, 2008