Aaron Zornes:
CLASS OF 1971
Santa Rita High SchoolClass of 1971
Tucson, AZ
University of ArizonaClass of 1975
Tucson, AZ
Wagner High SchoolClass of 1971
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Palo Verde High SchoolClass of 1971
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 ÃÂ
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)
|| Worked (2 weeks to 3 months) in Australia, Japan & Europe
|| Personal 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)
|| 3 month sabbatical in South America after 1989 SF earthquake (Lomo Prieta) ... 90 days in Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Brasil, Galapagos Islands, etc.
|| Lots 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 As 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
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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 industrys 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 ÃÂ
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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