I grew up in Oregon and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area after getting a degree in electrical engineering at Oregon State.  I’ve lived in the Bay Area all of my working life and in Mountain View since 2002 and I absolutely love what California and our special region in the bay have to offer. After a successful 30 year career in technology, most recently with Apple, I realized that my passion was not in technology, but in helping my coworkers fix problems and teaching them how to do it themselves.  With that insight, I decided to take the risky and unusual leap to step away from my job and find a better way to pursue my passion.