Aaron Zornes:  

CLASS OF 1971
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Tucson, AZ
Tucson, AZ
Wagner High SchoolClass of 1971
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Tucson, AZ
Wagner High SchoolClass of 1967
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Aaron's Story

Life CHILDHOOD: 6/23/53 Luke AFB, Phoenix, AZ; raised in USAF family … England (age 3- 8) & Philippines (12-14); spent most of pre-adult life in Phoenix & Tucson HOME: Hillsborough, CA (10 mi. south of SF); 2nd home in Munich, Bavaria, Germany FAMILY: married/divorced 3X … exclusive custody of then 8-yr old daughter ... remarried for 4th/last time in 2004 HOBBIES/FAVE THINGS TO DO: || ·Anything with daughters Emma, Juliana & Anneliese ... & wife-wonder woman Elisabeth || ·Raising koi in backyard 6,000 gallon pond & Japanese garden || ·Song writing & recording or playing live rock/jazz/funk music w/ friends || ·Fine-tuning MIDI performances of Yamaha Disklavier grand piano || ·Continuous life-long interest in international travel & culture (not tourism) || žWorked (2 weeks to 3 months) in Australia, Japan & Europe || žPersonal tours of hot spots "pre-capitalism” Egypt/Yugoslavia (12 weeks 79), China 4 weeks in 83), India (6 weeks in 85), USSR (6 weeks in 86) || ž3 month sabbatical in South America after 1989 SF earthquake (Lomo Prieta) ... 90 days in Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Brasil, Galapagos Islands, etc. || žLots of Mexico such Oaxaca, San Miguel Allende, Ixtapa, PV, Cabo, Quintana Roo & Yucatan area || Street food aficionado - Calcutta, Buenos Aires, London, Berlin, Tokyo, Cape Town, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Mexico, Australia, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, etc. etc. .. in search of hot spicy urban street food EDUCATION: || ·Co-valedictorian & student body prez at Santa Rita H.S. (Tucson, class of ‘71) || Honored as first graduating class of U of A’s mgmt info systems graduate school in 77; worked on PhD until disgusted with petty politics; graduated with M.S. in MIS CAREER #1: Rock musician || ·Last o...Expand for more
riginal member to join rock band “Greylock Mansion” (1968) .. local hit records, toured with Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, played 1st concert ever at Tucson Community Ctr || ·Started song writing duo “Ictus” & later “Toots” … learned guitar, keyboards and drums … moved to San Francisco in 1977 (age 24) and recorded original songs at Sausalito, CA Record Plant studio with likes of Prince, Doobie Brothers, Huey Lewis & the News, Tower of Power, Fleetwood Mac, and other greats (actually they were in studio next door to us) … performed throughout southwest USA as hard rock band, power pop duo, and multi-hatted bar band (remember the Pawn Broker off Tanque Verde Rd?) CAREER #2: IT professional in software industry || ·San Francisco area (Marin county) … 77-80 to join industry’s first database software firm (Cincom Systems) || ·Washington, D.C. … 80-82 to run product mktg org for Software AG (2nd software company to ever have IPO stock offering b/c no one believed you could make money selling software in the 1970s-80s || ·Boston, MA … 82-84 to head up Wang Labs’ product marketing groups || ·Bay area (San Francisco) … 84-89 to direct product mktg at start-up Ingres || ·Bay area (& home in NYC for 2_ yrs) … 90-05 … early-in exec of META Group ; 2nd largest analyst research firm in world || ·Bay area … 05-2019 … founder of MDM Institute ... 60,000 twitter followers, 10,000 LinkedIn connections, etc. ... running conferences for 500-2,000 IT pros at a time in San Francisco, London, NYC, Singapore, Tokyo, Madrid, Toronto, Johannesberg ... all cities each year from 2005-20019 || ·Bay area & Munich, Germany … 2019-present ... semi-retired while younger wife is wage earner and I am "house dad" to 2 teenager daughters
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Oaxaca - my alternative to Cabo San Lucas
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"Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead..."
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Lake Tahoe summer 2010

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