Do you remember the engineer from Fort Worth whose wife participated in a Jan. 30 video chat with the President using the "hangout" feature on Google Plus. She told him that her husband, despite his impressive credentials as an engineer, couldn't find work.

The President took the unusual step -- or politically opportunistic, depending on your point of view -- of asking her to send her husband's resume directly to him at the White House.

Well, three months later, the engineer is still unemployed.

FORT WORTH -- More than two months after President Barack Obama asked for Darin Wedel's résumé, the phone is quiet, e-mails are no longer flooding in and the long-sought-after job interviews -- which had begun to be scheduled -- have petered out. 

"Not even recruiting companies are calling anymore," said Jennifer Wedel, the Fort Worth mother of two who chatted online this year with Obama about her out-of-work husband. 

She says his job search has been hurt by a program to hire skilled foreign workers. 

It's been more than three years since Darin Wedel lost his job as a semiconductor engineer at Texas Instruments. 

But the family had newfound hope after Jennifer Wedel participated in a Jan. 30 video chat with the president using the "hangout" feature on Google Plus. 

She asked the president why the government issues and extends H-1B visas to foreign workers when highly skilled Americans like her husband can't find full-time work. 

Obama, who said industry leaders have told him that the U.S. doesn't have enough high-tech engineers to meet its needs, ended up asking for Darin Wedel's résumé. 

For weeks after that, the family's telephone rang constantly with calls from recruiters, headhunters, the news media, the Texas Workforce Commission, the White House, and out-of-town and out-of-state companies about possible job opportunities. 

"I did feel we got our hopes up a little," Jennifer Wedel said last week. "I mean, he's the POTUS. But it seems not even the leader of our country can get [Darin] a job." 

Shortly after Jennifer Wedel talked with the president, the family was overwhelmed with attention. 

Many calls came from out-of-state companies, as well as companies throughout Texas. But Darin's work choices are limited to North Texas because of a custody agreement for one of his two daughters that prevents him from moving away. 

Even so, the family thought a new job was right around the corner, possibly weeks away. 

But the phone calls lessened, and now they have stopped. 

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