Currently Retired - Former Profession

I am currently retired.

My last employer was U.S. Bancorp (http://www.usbank.com).

I have 40 years of experience in the Information Technology industry starting with Sperry Corp. in 1983. This was acquired by Burroughs Corp. in 1986 and formed Unisys.

I left Unisys in May of 1996 and joined First Bank System as a contractor working for CICS, Inc.

I accepted a permanent position at First Bank in March of 1997. First Bank acquired U.S. Bancorp in Portland, Oregon in March 1997. The headquarters for this merger was Minneapolis, Minnesota.

U.S. Bancorp was acquired by FirStar in October 2000 and closed in February 2001. The corporation is named U.S. Bancorp and the headquarters is Minneapolis, MN.

My specialization is Information Technology Architecture.

My knowledge level of the web started in the fall of 1994 with the release of NCSA Mosaic for X-Terminals.

I was a beta tester of the Microsoft Windows version of NCSA Mosaic 2.0, which is licensed by Microsoft Corp.