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BACKGROUND, EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE

I grew up in San Leandro, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I attended public school.  Upon graduating from high school, I attended the University of  California where I earned a BA in English Literature.  After graduating  I moved to the Sonoma Valley where I worked for the next ten years as a Special Education Teacher.  I attended Sonoma State College, studied education and psychology, and earned teaching  credentials in Elementary education and teaching children with severe learning disabilities. 

Next, I moved to Boston, Massachusetts,  where my then-wife and I purchased a 19th century brick townhouse in Boston's Back Bay.  We lived on the second floor and rented out the rest.  It needed a lot of work, and I put a lot of effort into repairs and  renovations.  My first year in Boston I taught an alternative class (resource room) for high school students.  I then worked as a Behavior Analyst for a community mental health center.  There, I worked at the Masters level, consulting with staff at various hospitals, nursing homes, group homes and schools, as well  as  with families and individual clients with behavior issues.  In 1982 I decided to do something quite different, and enrolled in the MBA program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

In 1984, now single, I r
eturned to California and embarked on a career in business analysis and  information automation.  From there I moved to Boulder, Colorado, where I  studied database design and  programming and attended the University of Colorado.  This effort culminated in a position with Oracle Corporation.  Then I moved to California's Silicon Valley, where I  consulted to major high-tech corporations around the  area as an independent contractor.  

These were exciting times in IT.  Many companies were re-working their information technology and paying top dollar for new systems, and people with my skills were in demand.  However, all of that came to a halt in 2001.   A "perfect storm" consisting of the dot-com melt-down, offshore outsourcing and 9/11 resulted in a catastrophic downturn in my client base.  Business looked internally and outside the U.S. for the resources they needed for their suddenly limited IT project needs.

In 2004 I moved to Whidbey Island, Washington.  My Dad had recently died and my Mom needed help.  So this was a good time for us to come north.  Since then I have worked at a combination of teaching and technical work. 

Most recently I founded HyperLocal Community Classifieds, a startup currently stuck in the funding stage. 

HCC will deliver networked classified advertising and local community information, managed by centrally-employed local editors, to vetted subscribers -- all under an umbrella of social responsibility. At least a third of our income will be returned to the community to support good works.  As a for-profit we can offer significant investor returns by targeting a currently un-occupied niche in the online advertising industry.  Alternatively, operating as a non-profit would maximize the benefits we offer our communities.

So far I have found that investors prefer to fund growth, and not development. We need funding to develop the application.  I have several large Facebook for-sale page administrators lined up to switch over to HCC.   If we had the application, we wouldn't need the funding!

For more information, please visit www.hyperlocalcommunityclassifieds.org.


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