I was raised in Sacramento and spent a lot of my youth in the Boy Scouts (eventually rising to Eagle) and experimenting with electronics. A high school teacher introduced me to computer programming which set the path for the rest of my career. I attended Cal Poly and earned a degree in Computer Science. After school, I moved to the Bay Area (Santa Clara) and worked for Tandem Computers (later acquired by HP) for 29 years. After HP, I worked for Oracle for 9 years before retiring in 2023. In 2000, my wife Paula (also from Sacramento and also a Poly grad) and I were looking for small town life for our young family and we relocated back to SLO. Amazingly I was able to spend the last 23 years of my career as a teleworker. We have two grown kids. My daughter is a teacher in Sacramento and my son is a civil engineer in SLO. Aside from working and raising a family, in the past I was active as a member and administrator in both the SLO Bicycle Club and the SLO Sportsmen’s Association.
I have been retired for just 6 months, so I’m still feeling my way around this new life. I have become active as a volunteer at Woods Humane Society giving the dogs exercise and socialization until they can find their new homes. After some years away from cycling I recently bought an e-bike and have really enjoyed getting back out on two wheels while letting the “e-” of the e-bike take the bite out of the hills and headwinds. I have also taken a few trips with my newly found free time and am actively planning more including an eventual goal of visiting all the major league baseball parks.