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原文传递 2022 BEST YOUNG TECH AWARD WINNER AUSTIN MATNEY

题名：	2022 BEST YOUNG TECH AWARD WINNER AUSTIN MATNEY
正文语种：	eng
作者：	AMANDA SILLIKER
摘要：	Austin Matney has been turning wrenches for as long as he can remember. When he was a little kid, he was always trying to "fix" his bike or skateboard and later helped his dad work on ATVs and UTVs. At age 15, he started working part-time for his now father-in-law at his mobile semi-truck repair business."I would do just odds and ends stuff for him after school, trying to learn, and I couldn't get enough of it," he says.Then at 17, he got a full-time job working for his now father-in-law's brother who had an auto repair shop near his hometown in Camarillo, Calif. He worked there during the day and still worked after hours on heavier duty repairs with his father-in-law. After doing this for five years, Matney applied at the City of Ventura in California, where he works now as an equipment mechanic II. (He was promoted two years ahead of schedule). It was his supervisor, Frank Palmer, fleet services supervisor, who nominated Matney for the Motor Age and PTEN Best Young Tech Award because he has been incredibly impressed by this young man since the day he interviewed for the job."He blew me away," Palmer says. "As a 22-year-old, his maturity, knowledge, and awesome attitude are very impressive." Matney, now 23, started out doing simple preventive maintenance on basic fleet equipment but quickly displayed his skills. The fleet of 454 pieces and six technicians went from 12 percent preventive maintenance compliance to 98 percent in Matney's first six months on the job, and they completed 1,007 backlogged repairs. His throughput increased 54 percent since he started at the city about a year and a half ago.
出版年：	2022
期刊名称：	Motor age
卷：	141
期：	9
页码：	28,30,32,34