Every college career ends, eventually.
Mine was no exception. After the excitement and turmoil of the Free Speech Movement,
I helped produce a photojournalistic book about those events, called The Trouble in Berkeley.
The experience led me to transfer eventually to the UCLA campus, to study
documentary film production. In 1966, I graduated from UCLA with a degree in Motion
Picture Production, and learned my first lesson about the film industry--it's not easy to
get started there!
But by then, another phenomenon entered my life--computers. A late-night, intense
conversation in my senior year led me to investigate job opportunites in the computer
programming area, which was then relatively new. Demand for programmers was high, and free
training was available for college graduates with enough science background. With no
prospects in the film business, and a job offer as a programmer trainee in hand, I turned
to a fascinating new field, one that has held my interest since I graduated from
UCLA at the age of 21.
In this first job, the computer had vacuum tubes and a
console twelve feet long covered with ! Since then, I've been involved in nearly every major technical
development in the computer systems business.
Here's a detailed look at what I've done in my career--my online
resume.