Ken Rogoway:  

While in High School I did a summer internship at NASA Ames Research working on "Searching for Remote Planetary Bodies". This was my first exposure to writing software and got me hooked. After graduating from Piedmont Hills High I attended San Jose State university for 2.5 years. For the first year I shared an aparment with Alan Moffet. For the remainder of college I shared a room with Glenn Moline. I was engaged for a brief time, but that didn't work out. I left college early for an opportunity developing games for the Commodore 64. Over the next few years I worked in an out of the game industry, but always in software development. I lived in Mountain View, San Jose, Milpitas, and San Francisco. In 1987-1988 I worked at Epyx on such games as California Games, World Games, Rescue on Fractalus, and Koronis Rift. I lived in Mountain View and commuted to Redwood City, but the traffic was so bad I grew fed up with it and decided to move outside the bay area. My son (with a girlfriend at the time), Justin was born in 1987. I took a job in Davis, CA working on biomedical equipment; adding my game experience to create real-time biofeedback machines for strength and Range of Motion training. I lived in Dixon, CA at the time, but went to Vacaville twice a week to bowl. It was there that I met my future (and current) wife. In 1990 I moved to Vacaville and took a job at Symantec in Novato. In May of 1990 I got married to Cora Kocher. In July of 1991 we had our first child, Kelsey. Towards the end of 1992 I left Symantec and started my own game company (Homebrew Software). I developed shareware games and also distributed other developer's games. At the time the internet wasn't a viable distribution method, so most of the games were distributed via dial up BBS systems. I also had some deals with CD-ROM manufacturers. During the time I had Homebrew Software open I also did some consulting. One of the jobs I did was to write Reader Rabbit 2 for The Learning Company. Over the next couple of years I got serious about my bowling and raised my average to 217. At that point I decided to join the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). I bowled a number of regional events and a couple of national events. but my professional bowling was a part-time activity. In 1995, due to a turn-down in the shareware market, I took a full-time job as Technical Director at Illumina Productions in Oakland. I worked on Hyperman (which was later turned into a Saturday morning cartoon), Congo, and Imagynasium. Illumina closed in 1997 and for the next 3 years I did contract work. In April 1998 our second daughter, Rebecca, was born. She had bilateral club feet and she had more than 7 surgeries over her first 6 years of life to get her feet into a normal position. I am glad to say she is doing well and except for the scars on her legs you would never know she was born with club feet. In 2000 I worked briefly at The Learning Company i...Expand for more