Education

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).

As a continuing student, I attended 4 years of the Computer Science program at CSU Northridge in 1982-86 on my own dime. Although I had a High Pass on the CSQT, 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 which would require finishing my BS.

Nevertheless as I have continued my own intellectual pursuits, primarily reading and writing.

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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)