Be in the moment, says tech innovator

WILLISTON — Back in high school, Steve Arms thought he might want to be a journalist. He'd grown up reading non-stop and often sneaked books and a flashlight under the covers when he was supposed to be asleep.

He changed direction shortly before graduating from Burlington High School in 1977. During his junior and senior years, a math teacher and a physics teacher ignited a fuse that prompted Arms to become an engineer, inventor and successful tech entrepreneur who runs a Vermont company with 55 employees and gross sales of $12.8 million in 2010.

"I have a dream job. I can't believe I get paid to do this," Arms said during an interview at MicroStrain, the sensor company he founded and leads in Williston.

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