I’ve been through several different stages since school, changing directions every 10-12 years. After my Bachelor’s from Harvard and Ph. D. from the University of Chicago, I started off my career developing math models in industry (Bell Labs, Bellcore). I got married, bought a house in New Jersey, and had two kids. Later, I moved into technology management, mostly managing product testing groups. That was my techie stage.

As the kids got older, I moved into technology consulting (Telcordia / SAIC), at one point managing 7 consulting teams in the US, Canada, and Mexico. I became the director of services marketing for a software company (Sybase) with a window office on the 34th floor in midtown NYC ... it was a ton of fun until the dot com bust. I also got divorced. That was my sales and marketing stage.

I then moved into my academia stage, returning to the area that I had avoided twenty some years earlier. I taught in New Jersey (Monmouth University), but then married a French-Canadian, learned French, and moved to Quebec City. There, I continued to teach online for several American universities. A few years ago, I moved back to Pittsburgh to help out my parents. I’m currently a campus dean for a for-profit university (Strayer). I’m also active in a social network, founding their second largest group in Pittsburgh (Free and Almost Free, with 2000+ members).

My son lives in Boston (consultant, LEK) and my daughter lives in Seattle (program manager, Microsoft). Each week, I visit my parents in their retirement home in Upper St. Clair to reprogram their DVR, reset their clocks, print out their email, etc. They then treat me to dinner in their dining hall (prime rib, or broiled scallops, or ...)!