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Lessons from my book: Chapter 19 – Testing the Limits

In chapter 19 of my book Get Back Up  I am now the Test Manager of Microsoft Publisher. In six short years I’ve progressed from configuring hardware in a lab to testing product software, then I became a test lead and now I was a test manager. Not bad for a guy without a college [...]

2020-06-26T14:46:03-07:00June 26th, 2020|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 19 – Testing the Limits

Lessons from my book: Chapter 18 – The Word is Change

In chapter 18 of my book Get Back Up  Suzie and I have left San Jose for Redmond, Washington, where I would be starting a new role as a test lead on Word, Microsoft’s word processing product. I had done all I could in the PowerPoint group to move up in the organization, but since [...]

2020-02-21T16:32:50-08:00February 21st, 2020|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 18 – The Word is Change

Lessons from my book: Chapter 17 – Presenting Myself

In chapter 17 of my book Get Back Up  I am now working at Microsoft. I started about as low in the company as I could, working in their test lab, where one of my jobs was to keep the lab clean. As I’ve said before, it doesn’t matter where you start as long as [...]

2019-12-23T10:41:44-08:00December 23rd, 2019|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 17 – Presenting Myself

Lessons from my book: Chapter 16 – Microsoft’s Arrogance Versus Mine

In chapter 16 of my book Get Back Up  I find myself unemployed again, but this time with two children. I couldn’t afford to screw around and had to find a job fast. During my last couple of weeks at Ashton-Tate I had already started sending out my résumé and I already had a couple [...]

2019-10-18T13:58:00-07:00October 18th, 2019|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 16 – Microsoft’s Arrogance Versus Mine

Lessons from my book: Chapter 15 – Finding the Right Bugs

In chapter 15 of my book Get Back Up  a lot changes for me and my wife. Monday, February 26 would be my first day as a full-time employee at Ashton-Tate and on Saturday, February 24th our first child, Nicholas, was born. During this time I was working two jobs. I was transitioning from a [...]

2019-07-31T13:46:51-07:00July 31st, 2019|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 15 – Finding the Right Bugs

Vote for me and I’ll set you free

Believe it or not the next political campaign is upon us. Seems like the last one just ended and the next one is beginning, and along with the political campaign comes all the promises: vote for me and I'll give you free healthcare, free college, free day care, and even a living wage. I'll fix [...]

2019-04-29T16:56:27-07:00April 29th, 2019|Author News|Comments Off on Vote for me and I’ll set you free

Lessons from my book: Chapter 14 – Printers, Plotters, and Cameras

In chapter 14 of my book Get Back Up I decide it’s time to get that job in tech. After all, it was the main reason I came to California. The job at Wendy’s almost destroyed my back. I couldn’t go through that again. One weekend, I came across an ad for device testers. I didn’t [...]

2019-02-22T13:42:03-08:00February 22nd, 2019|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 14 – Printers, Plotters, and Cameras

Lessons from my book: Chapter 13 – Shouldn’t You Be Looking for a Job?

In chapter 13 of my book Get Back Up I find myself without a plan. After multiple business failures and a bankruptcy, I don’t want to think about anything. Luckily or unfortunately, depending on how you want to look at it, I was in a place where I could do just that. We didn’t have a [...]

2018-11-29T15:11:06-08:00November 29th, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 13 – Shouldn’t You Be Looking for a Job?

Lessons from my book: Chapter 12 – Get Over It

In chapter 11 of my book Get Back Up we lost everything. The shoe repair was closed and we lost all our investments to foreclosure or bankruptcy. We couldn’t feel any lower, but we knew we needed to start over. While we lost all the material things we’d acquired during the last few years, one [...]

2018-10-17T13:54:00-07:00October 17th, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 12 – Get Over It

My Thoughts on Prostate Cancer and Alternative Treatments

Since writing my series of articles about my prostate cancer, which you can find on my website, I have received several emails and comments of encouragement. I have also received a few emails telling me of other treatment options besides the three I’ve talked about. Some of these are a little out of the mainstream such [...]

2018-10-08T13:28:55-07:00October 8th, 2018|Author News|Comments Off on My Thoughts on Prostate Cancer and Alternative Treatments
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