Interviewer(s): J. Sell. Houma, LA

Affiliation: University of Arizona

Glenn Usie was recommended by several business leaders, including the head of the Chamber of Commerce. He owns his own machine shop, Glenco, and is active in the community. We met at his office in his shop, where he could be accessible to his workers. The interview was interrupted periodically by people checking on work-related topics.

Glen Usie is a machinist. After learning the machinist trade in 1964, he went to work for Smatco Machine Shop in Houma. After two years in the Navy, he returned to Plaquemines Parish in 1968 to work for Freeport Sulphur before returning to Houma in 1970. In 1972 he started his own machine shop and has been running it ever since. The machine shop is a general machine shop catering to the oil industry. He developed and builds a wireline maintenance system that is easier to work with than the typical wirelines. This product is shipped around the United States, South America, and Scotland.