Biographical Summary

I was born on September 28, 1956 in Camden, New Jersey, the youngest of five children.

Between 1956 and 1974 when I graduated from high school, my family lived in four states: New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio and California. I had attended four primary schools, two middle schools and two high schools. I also had the opportunity to travel the length and breadth of the United States, mostly by automobile.

I graduated from California State University at Chico in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and a minor in business. After graduation I moved to San Jose, California where I worked as Marketing Manager for my family's manufacturing business. After four years under the business tutelage of my father, I decided to venture out on my own. In May of 1983 I set off for Colorado Springs, Colorado.

I had a college friend in Colorado Springs who owned a real estate development holding company. The company's cornerstone project was an industrial development called International Center for Aerospace Science and Technologies (ICAST). I started with the company as a freelance graphic designer soon after I arrived in Colorado. Within six months I was hired as marketing director for the holding company. Over the next three years I directed the development of marketing literature, and traveled extensively to promote the ICAST development. The project ran into financial difficulties in 1986 and I was laid off. I moved to Palo Alto, California later that year.

I purchased my first Apple Macintosh computer right before returning to California (Dec, 1986). As a graphic designer and marketing professional, I realized the potential of personal computers and desktop publishing to revolutionize the advertising industry. My first job back in California was with LaserWrite Desktop Publishing Center in Palo Alto, one of the first desktop publishing centers in the country.

After six months at LaserWrite, I co-founded a marketing communications agency named Resource Group. The company used Macintosh computers for creative applications, as well as project and financial management. Resource Group operated in San Jose from 1987 through 1993, providing marketing communications services to high technology clients. After the business partnership split up, I performed freelance marketing and graphic design services until 1997.

In 1994 I was introduced to the Internet. I immediately understood the importance of this new technology and started looking for a way to capitalize on it. In 1995 I started a web site called Lucidcafe, which is still in operation, averaging over 30,000 visitors per day from 175 countries. That same year I began providing web site development services to my marketing communications clients.

Late in 1996 I started a contract to develop a web site for Chamberlin Real Estate School in Campbell, California. Soon after I began this contract I realized that the correspondence courses offered by the real estate school were ideal candidates for delivery over the Internet.

By October, 1998 all of Chamberlin School's correspondence courses had been converted to Internet delivery. That same month the school owner and I incorporated proU.net, Inc. to continue refining the course delivery technology, and to market the online real estate courses through other schools. proU.net courses are currently sold through a network of resellers in Arizona, California, Nevada, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

I currently live in the beautiful city of San Francisco, California, in the Cole Valley neighborhood of the city.