Frank Velasquez:  

Life Wow, where do I start. After high school, I went to Sac city college and played football for one year. During college I also joined a tahitian performing show and toured the state performing at county fairs and other venues. It was also at this time that I met my first wife who was a dancer in the show. After a year, it grew too financially difficult to participate so I joined the Army in late 1974 for the educational benefits and was stationed in Washington state. I also got married during the Christmas holidays of 74. My great vision and experience with a rifle won me the top expert trophy for my division, and a stint as a special weapons instructor. I ended my career in the Army as a drill instructor training ROTC Cadets. I also completed my college education while in the military. Moved back to Sacramento in 1977 and started a business selling electronics at a shop in Fairfield. When that proved too boring, I sold the shop and moved to the S.F. Bay area in 1980. One year later, I was divorced and running my new business as a receivables consultant to high tech start-up's. Really enjoyed the single life during this time as well as a new hobby that eventually became another business. I began breeding and exhibiting Arabian horses. I also trained horses to saddle and gave riding lessons. Business was great and life was good. I met my future wife (Jeane') in 87 and after two years of blissfully living together, we had a whoops, and my first son(Raphael) was born on nov 8, 1989. We call him the earthquake baby because he was born just after the Bay area quake of 89. I also got married for the last time on 9-9-89. Due to the need to acquire good family medical benefits, I sold my business and accepted an offer to work for a relatively new company, Cisco Systems in 91. What a wild ride that was. When I started, my employee number was in the 800 range. When I left in 2000, they were issuing numbers in the 40K range. During my time at Cisco, I studied at Dartm...Expand for more