Mark Stubbs:  

I left Colorado a few after graduating from CU in 1984. The economy in Denver was going south fast and a layoff was imminent so I started looking elsewhere for a job. My girlfriend and sister lived LA so loaded my 81 Toyota and headed to California. I got an IT job at Lorimar Telepictures (TV shows "Dallas" and "Knots Landing") Lorimar was located in what is now Sony Studios in Culver City, CA. I lived with my then girl friend, Melissa Peacock, in Santa Monica. I worked at the studio a couple of years then Warner Bros. bought out Lorimar so I moved on to another studio, Orion Pictures for about a year. Orion collapsed too, so I looked for a more stable industry. Starting in 1990, I signed on with the new cellular phone division of PacTel which later became AirTouch Communications. All the while still doing IT jobs, programming, server administration, etc. AirTouch did very well during the tech boom of the 1990's. I moved from Santa Monica to Long Beach so my wife could ...Expand for more