My educational background requires a bit of explaining. This is necessary for anyone who might be concerned that my lack of a degree might in any way reflect poorly on a job application or a general assessment of my character. I would say this accounts especially for certain positions of authority, responsibility and visibility rather than technical competence (which I hope I documented well for recruiters and potential employers).
I completed 4 1/2 years of a Computer Science BS in 1987 at CSU Northridge. I dropped out owing to financial difficulty encountered in my early entrepreneurial career. In short, my first customer didn’t pay me. Since I had already won three internships at Xerox El Segundo, I immediately went to work for them at the Xerox Systems Group without having received a degree. Within 4 years I was leading technical projects and had MBAs working for me in New York City, so I declined pursuing a Masters degree.
Nevertheless as I have continued my own intellectual pursuits, primarily reading and writing.
Other Education
- Loyola High School 1974-1978
- USC Electrical Engineering 1978 (one semester: Freshman Classes)
- West Los Angeles CC 1980 (one semester: Economics, IBM RPG)