My teammates, including Tom Siderewicz, Craig Dolley, and many others, helped me evolve from a very quiet, shy kid to – well – someone less so. In this job, my Coach Tim Shaw taught me about intensity and unyielding dedication to your craft. My second job was the swim team, where I spent up to six hours a day in a pool, swimming a lot. One was my position as an editor at the Daily Forty-Niner. This discovery turned into changing my major to Journalism.
As I navigated college, I learned that I loved to write, and wanted to be a communicator.
I also arrived, rescued from what I’ll politely describe as a substandard grade point average with some talent as a competitive swimmer, armed with goggles, speedo, and a spot on the swimming team. I arrived at Long Beach State determined to be a lawyer, starting off as a Political Science major. This beautiful, large, vibrant university is known for world class volleyball, water polo, baseball, Steven Spielberg, Steve Martin (great speaker at graduation!), and back in the late 80s/early 90s, the Daily Forty-Niner newspaper. I discovered my first true professional love and passion at the beautiful campus of California State University at Long Beach. For those of you who are in the latter stages of your careers, I highly recommend putting digital pen to paper to chronicle your own journey. And while it would be impossible to chronicle every single person who impacted my career, you’ll read about quite a few here. Here is the story of my own human network. One of my favorite Enterprise IT brand campaigns is Cisco’s brilliant “Human Network.” It examines how extremely complex technology brings people together to create memorable experiences. While some are mentors and leaders I’ve worked for, they are also equally business partners turned lifelong friends and brilliant marketers who worked for me. After all, journeys are all about experiences gained, and thousands and thousands of lessons taught along the way by wonderful teachers. Very quickly, I realized my assessment of a 30-year career journey was much less about where, and overwhelmingly about who. This is a big change for me, and thus I’ve been quite reflective about my career these days. I’d rather say that I’ve decided to step away from my corporate body of work, so I can chase some new contributions. I don’t like to use the retirement word, as that evokes living in some tropical plant-adorned planned community like “Del Boca Vista” on Seinfeld. Today I announced that after 30 years of adventure in the Enterprise IT market, I will be traveling a new path, one that is strikingly different from the past 30 years.
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