Pyotr Ivanovich Jarvi (Pete)

Age

Born June 15, 1976

Job

BIM Manager

He drives his 2014 Honda Civic to the Portsmouth to his job in at CGSysOps

Ethnicity

Mother Ivana Borisovna, Russian met and married Pete’s father in Helsinki

Father Jon Jarvi, Finnis

Parents emigrated to USA (NYC) in 1974 and settled in Wilkes Barre, PA

Appearance

Pete is 6-4 blond, blue eyed and looks Nordic

Residence

Pete lives in a brick colonial revival home at 694 Beacon Drive, Norfolk, VA

Pets

Pete has a 2 year old Chesapeake Retriever , Missy that he is teaching to retrieve

Religion

Pete is a staunch Lutheran and attends the Bethany Lutheran Church near Mt. Vernon

Hobbies

Pete races his J24 that he keeps in the Paradise Marina in Deale, MD.

Pete belongs to a gun club near Cambridge, MD and in the Fall and Winter, hunts Canadian Geese, near the Blackwater Refuge

Single or married?

Married – Wife (Melanie)

Children?

Two kids Thomas (5) and Cindy (9)

Temperament

  • Theories which cannot be made to work are quickly discarded
  • Pete is able to tell you almost immediately whether he can help you, and if so, how
  • Pete knows what he knows, and perhaps what is more important, he knows what he doesn’t know
  • Pete can hardly rest until he has things settled, decided, and set
  • To Pete everything is negotiable… Anything is possible for Pete
  • Pete is unsparing of both himself and the others on the project
  • Pete has a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes his interest
  • Pete is one of the most open-minded of all people that he knows
  • Pete is not at all eager to take command of projects or groups, preferring to stay in the background until others demonstrate their inability to lead

Favorite Color

Teal Blue, the color of his high school football jersey

Friends

  • Pete races his sailboat every Wednesday evening with a three of his old college buddies.
  • Will Thomas, a carpenter with New Home Construction has know Pete since third grade
  • Bob Smith, an engineer with Data Solutions met Pete at Rodney Scout Camp when they were 15
  • Frank Thompson a high school English teacher meet Pete at a frat party at Penn

Favorite foods

A Pittsburg Style ribeye steak and baked potato with the works is Pete’s kind of feast

Pete’s favorite thing in the world is a Crab Feast at the Red Roost near Salisbury, MD

Drinking patterns

Pete got away from keggers in his twenties, but he still likes a few St. Pauli’s with his crabs and who could resist a fine Bordeaux with a steak from Ruth’s Chris?

Phobias

Pete does not like snakes, and breaks out in a cold sweat when he encounters even small snakes

Faults

Pete spends every waking moment online

Pete sweats the details or, at times, omits them

Pete is known to take it upon himself to implement critical decisions without consulting their supervisors or coworkers

Something hated?

Pete hates raw fish, Indian Food and Mexican food, in that order. He’s a meat, potatoes and steamed crabs kind of guy

Pete hates people that don’t pull their weight, obstruct forward movement or sabotage projects

Secrets?

Pete has learned to simulate some degree of surface conformism to mask his inherent unconventionality

Strong memories?

Just before he was 18, Pete became an Eagle Scout. To this day he gets warm feelings when he remembers his parents awarding the honor.

Any illnesses?

Pete is healthy as a horse, but has started to worry about his blood pressure and cholesterol now that he has kids

Nervous gestures?

Pete taps his foot with impatience when people are slow or attending to what he sees as ‘touchy feelie’ things

Sleep patterns

Pete goes to be late and gets up early. He doesn’t seem to need much sleep, though he has been known to sleep in on Father’s Day