User:SanFranciscoFrog

Introduction
"I was once a handsome frog. Now I'm an ugly prince."

Bio
Born in San Francisco in 1944 from a mother who was a 4th-generation San Franciscan and a father who lived there beginning at age 8, I have long identified with The City (how SF Bay Area residents refer to it). I have lived in the inner Richmond district, the Sunnyside (it wasn't), and West Portal, but moved to Belmont (26 miles South) in 1985, when I began to get multiple I.T. consulting contracts in Silicon Valley, after working at large corporations in San Francisco for 16 years.

After being trained by IBM, I worked for them at client sites fixing bugs in their large mainframe operating systems (PCP, MFT, MVT, SVS) for 3 years (1969-72). IBM Field Engineering Division taught me methods of problem-solving which I've been able to use ever since. I foolishly left IBM for more money, first working for Wells Fargo as a Senior Systems Programmer, configuring IBM operating systems for their multiple mainframe data center, later designing the architecture for their new data center a block away, getting a window office, but then leaving Wells in 1975 for a job as Systems Programming Manager at Rand Information Systems, one of my former clients at IBM. ... [more to come]