Jim Botto:  

Life After high school I spent the next six year is the US Air Force. I was at Vanderberg AFB during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was a combat crew member for the Atlas “F”ICBM. After my military service I went back to college under the GI Bill. I graduated from Diablo Valley College with an AA degree in Business. I spent the next two year at Cal State College at Hayward. I had to leave in my senior year to run our family business when my brother was hurt badly in an automobile accident. It took over a year for his recovery and when he returned to the business we parted company and I went in to the automobile business. I have been in this business ever since. After twenty-five years in retail Service and Parts Operations I became a Management Consultant for Automotive Service Consultants based in Birmingham, Alabama. Automatic Data Processing (ADP) acquired my company in 1995 and I became the Project Manager for writing and developing Service Management training courses. I was working ...Expand for more