As a child, my family lived in Savage, Minnesota. I went to grade school at St John the Baptist (also in Savage.)
I graduated from Burnsville High in '77. Following High School, the USMC beckoned me.
After the Marines, my professional life really began. With my newly gained experience as a computer operator, companies like National Computer Systems and Northern Telecom (now Nortel) wanted me.
I left Northern Telecom to work at 3M after taking COBOL programming at 916 Area Vo-Tech College (now known as Century College). I left 3M for a position at Portech. This filled the early years of my career.
Then in 1986, General Mills finally realized that they need someone excellent.... Me. Originally, I was hired as a programmer/analyst. My first project was an expert system for the computer aided loading of trucks. This was a 18,000+ line Fortran subroutine. My second project was the implementation of a Quality Control application.
My true calling seemed to be when I move to the Systems Programming area at General Mills. Here I was the primary person for technical support for all General Mills' HP 3000 computer systems. At one point, I was solely responsible for twenty five systems in the corporate headquarters, plants and distributions centers across the U.S. and Canada.
While working at General Mills, I started consulting. At first this started slowly and as time past, I became the leading HP 3000 (MPE/iX) person in Minnesota.
Today, I am CEO of my very own .com corporation. Pro 3K ...
I married my wife Jill in 1981. We live happily together with our two beautiful daughters, Beth and Katie, in Apple Valley, Minnesota.
I volunteer in the National Ski Patrol 
at Buck Hill 
in Burnsville, MN.
On February 6th, 2000, I was patrolling while Alberto Tomba was racing...
That's me on the left and Alberto Tomba on the right
I am trying to successfully propagate seahorses. This is a difficult process and requires and extreme amount of dedication and sacrifice.
Here is a link to my brother's web page.
Here is a link to my cousin's web page.