Dennis Parker:  

Life After High School, I joined the Bell Telephone System (while attending college at Wayne State). I married a lady from Redford High School, and we moved east to New Jersey. I attended Rutgers University, and graduated from Pace University, New York City, with my BS and MBA in Management and became an officer with AT&T in New Jersey. In 1985 I left AT&T to start my own business (Princeton Institute of New Jersey) which was an International Telecommunications and Transportation Consulting Firm. The company grew quickly and I sold it in 1990 after I was recruited to become President of Independent Telecommunications Network, Inc., a telecom start-up. That company merged with another in 1995, went public, and was sold to a West Coast company named Verisign for $1.2 Billion. I left ILUM in 1996 to fix a broken company (Prairie Systems) in Omaha, NE. We fixed it by 1998, and then I joined 21st Century Cable Television in Chicago, helping a friend from Michigan Bell to turn around that troubled co...Expand for more