I am a Vietnam veteran, a retired computer consultant from small town Illinois and a former Advisory Programmer with a subsidiary of IBM in Silicon Valley. I was born and raised in Long Beach, California, and educated in California, I attended several colleges in California and received a BS degree in accounting. I was a CPA in California for a few years and worked in public accounting for 4 years in Los Angeles, Newport Beach and Chicago. I also had stints as assistant

Controller and Controller for divisions of major U.S. corporations. I spent the last 30 years working as a computer consultant in Northwest Illinois and retired at age 72.