Dianah Neff:  

While attending San Jose State University, I married and graduated from SJSU . I have two adult sons who live in San Jose and Costa Mesa. I worked in Silicon Valley for 14 years for semiconductor, electronic and start up companies. After my last start up company filed for chapter 11 , I decided a career change was important as I was now divorced and had just survived my first bout of cancer. I began a very rewarding career in government starting with City of Palo Alto as Director of Information Resources taking them from mainframe to a networked organization. While there in 1993/4, I put the City of Palo Alto on the map as the first city in the US to have an world wide web site. After Palo Alto, I moved to San Bernardino County then to City of Bellevue Washington where I was there first Chief Information Officer (CIO). After taking them through Y2K, I moved to City of San Diego as Deputy City Manager and CIO. I helped create San Diego's "Bandwidth Bay" designation my mapping the...Expand for more