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Fairfield, Ca

FarStar Communications assists business of all sizes to increase sales through innovative system design and integration of digital/high-technology. FarStar specializes in networked digital signs, and mobile and phone app development.

Fairfield, Ca

With over 10 years of experience providing lessons to Solano County's junior golfers, the Solano Golf Pro continues to provide lessons on a limited basis. The Solano Golf Pro has coached and given lessons to the best juniors in the area including 2017 Big Sky Conference Player of the Year and Sac State Athlete of the Year - Arron Beverly; PGA/PGM Professionals Anthony Del Dotto and Dylan Nevins. Fees for juniors are always free and contributions are accepted from adults. Additional funding for junior lessons come from community donations and FarStar Communications signs located throughout the City of Fairfield, CA.

Fairfield, Ca

Photographer, Post Production, Sales and Marketing.

Fairfield, Ca

Roflsoft provides marketing solutions and services for all size wineries. Roflsoft's divisions include:Just Bottles Shot Club: High quality wine bottle digital imaging at reasonable prices.Tags Database: provide universal 'cloud' database of wines. People can look up any wine record within the database by scanning a Microsoft -Tag using their camera phone, iPod, Blackberry, Windows Phone, etc.

Toni Muscovitch and I founded Mirasoft with a vision that 4GL tools would move down the chain to the desktop PC. We believed that we could provide superior solutions in both cost and features using dBASE/FoxPro and PCs. Our target was government and nonprofit accounting. Developing in dBASE proved to be incredibly productive. I am still amazed that Mirasoft starting selling the ForFUND Accounting suite of software in less than one year after incorporation. ForFUND was the first to market with a 4GL based fund accounting solution. And later Mirasoft became the first Microsoft Windows based fund accounting solution! Again, there is something special about being able to work with a team of creative and driven people. And there is no reward like the feedback one gets from customers that appreciate the Team's efforts.

These were the pre-MS Windows days. MS-DOS and Novell networks were being installed everywhere. However, it was also the time that UNIX systems were moving from the defense and education markets into commercial use. Companies like SUN were on the move.BASIS was a systems integrator of medium and large scale UNIX workstations and servers targeted at Fortune 500 companies. Essentially we were a group of very intelligent UNIX specialists that created hardware and software solutions for government and large corporations. BASIS's specialties included the new 4GL development tools like Oracle and Informix. The group was highly motivated and we all believed that mult-tasking UNIX created superior overall solutions. Working long days was viewed more as a perk than a burden. We were all playing with cutting edge of technology. Looking back, it was not surprising that revenues doubled during my short tenure at BASIS.

After six years with Motorola/Four Phase, I was recruited to Rabbit Software by some ex-Motorola employees that had already moved during Rabbit's start-up phase. Rabbit developed IBM mainframe communications emulation software for Unix systems. The team licensed our products to OEM's like Motorola, 3COM, etc. Even IBM licensed Rabbit Software for its new line of Unix systems. The sales were large and complex and required extensive contract negotiations. Again, it was great to be surrounded by a group of such smart people. It was at this time that Unix was moving from the Defense and Academic world into the Commercial Marketplace. Again, never a dull moment!

My first high tech job was at the Four Phase division of Motorola. Starting at Corporate HQ's Budgeting Department in Cupertino, I worked my way into sales at the San Francisco Branch Office. There, I was mentored by Randy Craven, possibly the greatest salesmen and manager I have ever known. Randy consistently led his team to being the #1 branch in the country selling proprietary mini computers and later Unix mini and super-mini computers to Fortune 500 companies. Solutions included data entry, office automation that front-ended IBM mainframes computers in wide area networked environments. These were fun and exciting times. The team's challenge was to identify and communicate Four Phase's advantages over Office Automation systems from Wang, Nixdorf, Unisys, IBM, DEC, HP, etc.). Plus, the newly emerging world of standalone and networked PCs made the whole industry incredibly dynamic. I was never bored and constantly learning.

Fresh out of college, I explored a career as a PGA Club Pro. I worked in the Pro Shop as an assistant to the Head Professional. La Rinconada Country Club (in Los Gatos, CA) was a great place to learn the profession. However, I was looking at a four year apprentice program prior to getting a 'Class A Card' and a decent wage. Broke, with student loans to pay off, I decided seek a career in the Silicon Valley's high tech industry.

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Activities and Societies: Varsity Golf Team

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