Kerry Riggs:  

Life Well, how do I cram 44 years into this little paragraph? After I graduated I went west and lived in Santa Cruz Mountains for about 20 years, as Jim Morrison says-the west is the best. I got married have 2 kids (Marlena-she is 15; and a son Lakota who will be turning 6 - man time flys). I got into the computer field after I graduated from San Jose Stae in 1987. I put myself through school meat cutting and riding in the rodeo (some clowing for the Saddle Rack and a lot of bull riding). I now, have moved back to texas (april 07) (North of Dallas-Denison, near the red river and Lake Texoma); Have a 10 acre spread and a very nice house. I work for Travelocity now in Southlake, (near the Grapevine in Dallas). My Short Biography I was born in El Paso Texas and grew up in Socorro Texas on a small farm. My grandparents had a big part in my upbringing and were always a part of my life. My grandmother was half Mescalero and half Chiricahua apache. I love the native american ways and like the Lakota Sioux the best. I worked stock from the time I was 3 until I moved to California when I was 20 years old. I got certified as a meat cutter through the FFA in high school my junior and senior year. My grandfather had a big ranch outside of Deming New Mexico which he enjoyed very much, we ran horses and cattle. I used to rodeo quite a bit and ride broncos and bulls every Friday night at the local arena in Socorro. Moved to California and rode bulls in local Gilroy competitions. I won my last rodeo in 1996 on a bull named Stomper in Oakdale California, dedicated the buckle and the win to my grandfather. I got a job at the biggest bar in California (Saddle rack) where I clowned for live bull riding 4 nights a week, made very good money at it and it was all under the table until a rider was killed (not on my shift); they re-opened the bull riding a year later and on the second night another person was killed and that was the end of my bull fighting and live riding at the rack. I then got a meat cutting job in Monte Vista until I got my degree (86) and my first job in computers in 1989 Singer Link, govt. flight sim. I then broke into the software testing arena at Claris in 1989; every since I have been into computers and contracted at many high tech companies in the silicon valley; now I am at Travelocity full ti...Expand for more