Jeffrey Anderson:  

Since June of 1973, I have done a lot. I spent 2 summers with the US Forest Service fighting fires. In between those summers I worked for Lucky food store. I joined the US Navy in Septemebr of 1974, for 4 years. I was an Airdale stationed at NAS Mira Mar in San Diego. I was in 2 nearly plane crashes within 6 days apart. In 1978, I got out and went to school at West Valley College in Saratoga CA. Majored in Business. In 1980, I transfered to San Diego State University, but left in 1983, after changing majors a couple of times. Heck, I was living in Mission Beach. I moved to San Jose, CA and have been here ever since. At first I had some odd jobs like janitorial and retail. In 1984, I joined a hi tech company called Televideo Systems. This was the first company in a number of Silicon Valley companies at worked at for the next 19 years. In 1985, I joined a small company that had about 250 employees. It had just went IPO a few months before. I stayed with this company for 12 years leaving in 1997 when they employeed 13,500 world wide. The name of the company was 3Com. The company was a lot of fun to work for. It was a party company. I made lots of stock options with my performance. I got to know and work with Dr. Robert Metcalf, the inventor of ethernet. It was a great learning ex-perience. I went from receiving, to stockroom, to shipping and finally in materials management. I became a materials buyer/planner and a product planner. I did some contract administration. In 1997, I went to KLA-Tencor. They are the second largest Simiconductor equipment manufacture. I was in their customer support division making sure product was getting repaired and customers were getting product returned on time. In 1999, I went to Nortel Networks. I was a production and new products Sr. Buyer/Planner. Nortel was a lot of fun, but didn't last long. They dec...Expand for more