This brief biography is being provided to help the readers of this web site understand who I am and "where I am coming from".  I want to talk to people who have to work for a living.  

You saw on the home page, I am a "Yooper" from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  I was born in 1937 and lived in Upper Michigan until I was 17.

My dad was an iron miner and a lumberjack; I think he finshed the 6th grade.  My mother stayed home to take of myself and the other eleven children (7 more boys and 4 girls).  I guess these days you might call us poor but we never knew it.  That was because virtually everybody I knew was in the same boat.

Like several of my friends, I had quit school at 16 and went to work (driving a truck).  Three months after I turned 17, I joined the United States Air Force.  I was sent to Parks Air Force Base in Oakland, CA for basic training and from there to Cheyenne, Wyoming for technical school.  

After that I went to England for 3 1/2 years.  During that period I got married and had my first child (a wonderful little girl).  When the time was up, I was sent back to Cheyenne, WY to join the Strategic Air Command. 

The base had been converted from a training base to what was now an Operational Long Range Strategic Missle Base.  Our second wonderful little girl was born in Cheyenne.  In 1963, I decided to leave the Air Force. 

During my time in England and in Cheyenne, I had finished High School and taken several college courses through the facilities provided by the Air Force.  I changed my primary career in the Air Force from Materials Management to the new field of computers.  The first job was programming and running one of the first computers in the Air Force; the IBM RAMAC 305.

When I left the Air Force in 1963, I found my first computer job in Chicago.  I lived in the Chicago area until 2001 at which time I retired.

During my period in Chicago, I managed to obtain a Masters Degree in Business.  

I started as an Analyst/Programmer and ended my career as a Vice President of MIS (Management Information Services).  I have been in many Board Room meetings and planning sessions. 

Consequently, when I write about our Corporations it is from many years of experience.