William Jones

Childhood and Early Life
William was born in Northern Rhodesia on 2334. William lived out his early life in the city of Lusaka. He grew up with both his mother and father, and spent most of his time in his fathers' shop helping him fix generators and replicators. He had a natural ability to fix broken equipment from a young age. Though he never felt he really fit in with the other kids and never tried to make any friends. He did have one friend named Emily, he saw her as a popular kid and never truly understood why she was so nice to him and always tried to hang out with him. At the age of 16, he applied for an internship to study under a Chief engineer on a freighter. He received the internship, and study and worked under the chief engineer for two years.

Academy Years
His academy years were quite typical though he didn't make many friends. He graduated 5th in his class of engineers. During his academy years he took Advance leadership courses, engineering, transport of theorspacewalkalk, warp theory.

Early Service Years
When he turned 18 he enlisted in star fleet as an engineer he first posting was on deep station 5 near the Romulan, iconian border. DS5 was a rundown station and was always on the edge of exploding. It's engine would constantly shut down due to overheating. William was sent to inspect it, the engine had a sensor issue where too little coolant was being sent to the engines causing it to overheat. This was missed in previous inspections due to faulty wiring. William was rewarded for his efforts and promoted to petty officer first class. He spent 2 years on the station before he put in a request for the academy to further advance his education in engineering.

His first assignment as an officer was onboard the USS Berlin. This assignment lasted one year during this time he did nothing but run diagnostics. After the USS Berlin came the USS crazy horse. During his two years aboard the ship he had to deal with Engineering half-assigning their job and a lack of engineers leading to constant technical faults around the ship. He did what he could to keep her running but she spent most of her time in space docks. He put in for a transfer on the USS Yorktown as an FAE, he was accepted and worked aboard the Yorktown. During his Four years as FAE, his engines only ever broke three times and two of those times were during combat. William kept a tight ship during those four years and had his crew run a daily diagnostic on the warp and impulse drive. He also had his crews perform a monthly physical inspection on all major components. He put in a transfer for the USS enterprise after hearing there was an opening for an FAE, he thought his engineering skills could be of better use on the flagship. He had also grown aboard the USS Yorktown.