11.   Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a Federal Express systems engineer whose life is ruled by the clock.

12.   He applied to become an IBM salesman after graduation, but the company wanted to make him a systems engineer.

13.   He played a frenzied FedEx systems engineer traveling the world to show carriers how to keep the mail on time.

14.   He worked as a missile systems test engineer for Eureka Williams in Illinois and later for San Angelo Communications and Electronics in West Texas.

15.   He started as a system engineer working on computer networking jobs for retailers and banks.

16.   However, a bit of competitive spirit carried over into construction, said Jim Cash, a systems engineer with the Vinson and Elkins firm.

17.   I was working as a systems engineer at the Martin Company at the time.

18.   Its systems engineers cannot manage the logistics of supplying resources to a carrier and its half-dozen support vessels, the equivalent of a small city at sea.

19.   Ms. Lins, a Blackhawk helicopter pilot, worked as a systems engineer for Texas Instruments until her son, Matthew, was born five years ago.

20.   Not bad, said Uribe, who was at work as a computer systems engineer in Fort Lauderdale at the time.