I changed my family name when I married my college
sweetheart in 1991.
My wife Nowell and I have 2 girls: Cassidy (10) and
Shelby (9). After a year at De Anza I took off to
pursue a design career. First stop was Long Beach
State University. I feverishly completed a portfolio
and was accepted to Parsons School of Design in
Los Angeles in 1988 for the 88/89 school year. I
changed my mind that summer and decided to switch
majors and get out of college with a business degree
instead. So I graduated from Long Beach State
University in 1990. My 4th employer out of college
was Cisco where I stayed for 9 years. I left Cisco in
2002 to join a smaller networking company named QLogic
where I head up the Marketing Communications team.
Nowell retired in 1997 to a life of consulting and
raising our kids after a prosperous 5 years at Cisco
and a number of years elsewhere. She continues to
consult and is currently developing curriculum to teach
Biblical principles for conflict resolution for
elementary school children.
We live in Ladera Ranch, a new community
in the foothills overlooking San Juan Capistrano and
Dana Point.