When Mike Wayman graduated Valedictorian from Big Sandy High School in 1989, little did he know that he would be putting engineers to work in the Twin Cities area as well as helping design a huge safety feature for fire trucks known as BackSafe.

Wayman is the son of Karen Jespersen and step son of Rich Jespersen of Big Sandy.

After graduating from Big Sandy High School, Wayman went to Concordia College and North Dakota State both, graduating with a mechanical engineering degree.

Wayman took his mechanical engineering degree and applied it to electronics by being able to design boxes to hold wh...