http://www.radwin.org/mvhs/class/1985.html The Mountain View High School Alumni Directory is an e-mail/web page listing of alumni, students, faculty and staff from Mountain View High School in Mountain View, California. en-us Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:11:42 GMT http://www.radwin.org/mvhs/detail/000919.html Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:11:42 GMT 919,1226272302@www.radwin.org/mvhs/ Updated 9-Nov-2008. A quick overview of me since High School: School: 2 years of Electrical Engineering at University of Notre Dame (I was on the national championship fencing team fencing Sabre and Epee). Transferred to UCSD and completed a BS in Computer Engineering in 2 years. MBA -- UC Irvine in 2003/04 specializing in finance and entrepreneurship Master of Wine prep program in 2007/08 Life: I have worked in the software development field (as a programmer, manager and owner) for 20 years. I was an Associate Venture partner during the rise and collapse of the .com bubble. It was quite a ride and very educational. I am currently making wine under my label, Lionheart Wines. The wines are mostly Rhone varietals but I also do Pinot Noir, Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon. I am currently married to a fabulous woman, Jen. She is very smart, high energy and quite the partner in crime. :) I am very lucky man. We do not have any kids yet. http://www.radwin.org/mvhs/detail/001547.html Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:48:59 GMT 1547,1224096539@www.radwin.org/mvhs/ Updated 15-Oct-2008. Find me on facebook - let's chat ~ http://www.radwin.org/mvhs/detail/001577.html Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:35:37 GMT 1577,1218386137@www.radwin.org/mvhs/ Updated 10-Aug-2008. Hi Everyone! I love checking this site from time to time to see what you're all up to! Thanks so much to Chris Slye for giving us a link to view the 20th reunion photos...they were a lot of fun to look at! My life is pretty much the same since seeing you all back in 2005...still very happily married to my husband, Bret (Gunn High School, class of 85). We'll celebrate our 15th anniversary in September. Still living in the same house in Danville...still very active in my children's schools...still doing the stay- at-home-mom thing, as well as other volunteer work, like delivering Meals on Wheels to seniors. Our kids are now 12, 10 & 7 and they keep me extremely busy with all of their energy and activities. I can't believe that in January I will have a teenage daughter (she's had the teenage attitude for a while now, but she'll be official on Jan. 19th)!! Life can be crazy and hectic, but we're all happy & healthy and extremely blessed, so I can't complain :) I still keep in touch with Michele Renfro, Nicole Pennings and Elyse Berman (who has recently moved back to Danville)... I hope that all of you are enjoying your families and lives and that our paths will cross again someday. Until then, take care! P.S. For those of you who may be wondering about my brother, Brian, class of 84...He currently lives in Elk Grove with his 3 sons (ages 10, 7 and 4). He's worked in sales and management for the Konica/Minolta company for many years now and has been very successful with them. He's a single dad and I know that he'd love to hear from old friends that might happen along this site. Feel free to email me and I'll pass your post along to him. http://www.radwin.org/mvhs/detail/003319.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:57:18 GMT 3319,1217969838@www.radwin.org/mvhs/ Updated 5-Aug-2008. The latest... After a seriously embarrassing length of time, the photos from the 2005 reunion are up! You can find them at the link below. I realized I was mentally stuck waiting to dress them up more, add captions, and all of that, when all I really should have done is just uploaded them. So that's what we have now. Maybe I will slowly enhance them. Meanwhile, you can all guess who's who if you weren't there. (And sometimes you can read the nametags.) Photos here: http://www.theslyes.com/mvhs * * * After going to UC Santa Cruz for two years and studying art history, I worked at assorted jobs around the Bay Area, doing freelance graphic design and office work, living in Cupertino and Oakland for a while. Met Christy in 1991, married since '92 and living in Alamo (near Walnut Creek). I then got fascinated by typography and type design, and was hired into the type group at Adobe Systems in San Jose, where I've now been making fonts since 1997. Christy and I have been amusing ourselves in our spare time with house remodeling, travel, and food, among other things. http://www.radwin.org/mvhs/detail/001910.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:36:59 GMT 1910,1216391819@www.radwin.org/mvhs/ Updated 18-Jul-2008. Wake up! http://www.radwin.org/mvhs/detail/001579.html Mon, 26 May 2008 00:21:52 GMT 1579,1211761312@www.radwin.org/mvhs/ Updated 25-May-2008. http://www.radwin.org/mvhs/detail/003724.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:06:06 GMT 3724,1209312366@www.radwin.org/mvhs/ Updated 27-Apr-2008. Wow, what a great thing to read what is happening with everybody. I'm jealous of everybody! Here I am in jail. .... ok not really. I am in a small room (but it's big by Manhattan standards)..(really). So, enough about you... How 'bout me!? Well....(drum roll)... after graduation, at which you all looked Stunning! and hopeful... or happy. I confuse the two quite often. Full of promise...that's the phrase. So after that, I went to Harvard on the Hill. Or those who prefer Stanford on the Stump. And for those that are old...Foothill Junior College. Go... Owls? Ah, the commute on a glorious Silicon Valley morn. One year there, interspersed with time almost as much served with the Campus Police; because of ... skateboarding. (and I wasn't the only one on mushrooms) This paragraph has nothing to do with the next people....paragraph..shit/. (no really I was NOT in jail!) So, myself, Rich Wegener, and Mike Albin said "man Foothill feels like 13th grade." Uncomfortable, like a bearded lady at a Sadie Hawkins' dance. (road) San Diego, movie stars, land of parties, skating, and Grossmont. Yet another Junior college. But hey, it wasn't Mountain View, Los Altos, etc., all those places that were lacking the people we wanted to see. It was new. That's about as interesting as that gets. Any San Diego speculation, calls the writer and the residents into suspect. Can't describe the amazing delicious Carne' Asada burritos, watching the sunset surfing at Sunset and the skate-ditches in Lemon Grove. P.S. Mexico is close but you have to go far to get there. So after getting through a year at Grossmont without destroying my chances of getting into a UC; I as well as the other two yokels returned to the scene of the crime. ah Silicon Valley...can't you semi smell the conductors../ Spent another quarter at Foothill; joined KFJC, probably the best college station EVER! But, I digress. I was able to cheat on my Statistics final. (Not to mention the term paper service that delivered to San Diego in a timely manner with UPS) And our Hero was able to get out and into UC Santa Cruz which has a long illustrious history with Mtn. View students all the way back to Awalt/Mtn. View. I was able to join Tim Farrell and Chris Sly (sp) at what proved to be the Iwo Jima of my Freak Flag. (I'm particularly proud of that phrase) Love the CA coast. Studied music and then changed to Theatre at UC. Thank you Kevin. Tim knows what he himself did. Figured out, that I wanted more than designing sound would cover. Became an actor...because it was so much more fun...the exhilaration, the shows, the energy. If you've stood before a crowd you know what I mean. And I did join the radio station at Santa Cruz KZSC under such illustrious names as UP YER MORNING, and MR. Tease Broadcast Plaza. Anyway to make a long story longer. I got into The American Conservatory Theatre, ACT in San Francisco. And I got my MFA from ACT. More to come. http://www.radwin.org/mvhs/detail/003255.html Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:10:26 GMT 3255,1209046226@www.radwin.org/mvhs/ Updated 24-Apr-2008. Working my way across the country... We're now in Greenville, South Carolina- Beautiful little town, reminds me of NorCal. If anyone else is around these parts, drop me a line, I'd love to get together. http://www.radwin.org/mvhs/detail/000597.html Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:25:55 GMT 597,1206761155@www.radwin.org/mvhs/ Updated 28-Mar-2008. http://www.radwin.org/mvhs/detail/002639.html Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:07:47 GMT 2639,1204506467@www.radwin.org/mvhs/ Updated 2-Mar-2008. After taking a couple of years off after MVHS then rotating through a variety of schools and majors, I graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1991 with a Bachelor's in psychology. I had intended to pursue a higher degree in counseling, but got sidetracked. After several career changes within the Valley and nearly flying off to the Czech Republic to teach English, I moved briefly to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where I worked in marketing for a national law firm. I returned to California in 2002 to work as a writer and editor for the City of Sunnyvale. In November 2003, I married Renee Sanguinetti and completed the complicated process of taking her last name in 2005. Recently, after more than two years of efforts, we adopted an adorable one-year-old from Russia, returning home with little Genevieve in December 2007. We are now in the wonderful and exhausting process of adapting to having a toddler in our lives.