Michael Wall

Michael Wall seems hard-wired for his job as an electrical engineer.

The “career light” came on early for the owner of Michael Wall Engineering Inc., a San Diego-based company that provides pre-design consulting and planning, construction documents and management services as well as specialty lighting design.

“Even as a teenager I wanted to be an electrical engineer,” said Wall, 52, who worked throughout high school and college at his dad’s electrical engineering firm in Orange County.

While many of his contemporaries in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s were pursuing careers in the new field of computer science engineering, he graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a degree in electrical engineering and then followed his father’s footsteps into the family business.