Michael Capron:
CLASS OF 1978
Lakewood High SchoolClass of 1978
Lakewood, OH
Michael's Story
Life
Ok, after graduation in 1978 I went to work briefly for WorkBench Furniture in the Flats as a deliveryman. After 6 months I joined Samsel Supply and did various jobs ranging from pollution recovery to canvas worker to truck driver. I mostly was a truck driver for 5 of the 6 years I was there. In 1984 I finally figured out that I couldn't drink all the beer in Cleveland (only because there simply isn't enough time), and finally got my butt to college. I moved to Maryland in 1984 with my future wife Kathy Hobaugh (still the love of my life) and attended Capitol College in Laurel, Maryland. After graduation in 1988 I went to work for a defense contractor building anti-submarine warfare simulators for 6 years or so until the bottom fell out of the war industry. In 1994 I got a Novell certification and became an IT guy at Johns Hopkins Applied Phys...Expand for more
ics Lab. After 6 years or so I jumped ship to join the "dot com" boom with a company called Digex. Within 3 mos my stock options were worth $1.3M dollars and within another 6 months they were worth only pennies! Somehow the company weathered the collapse of the dot com era and we were acquired by Worldcom then MCI and finally Verizon. So now I'm with Verizon Business as the director of 24/7 technical operations for their web hosting business. I have about 135 employees who are AWESOME and we host websites for a lot of Fortune 100 companies like Novartis, American Honda, JCrew, and more. Kathy and I have two kids, 7 and 9 years of age. We're active in our church and enjoy biking, running, and swimming. We recently both ran in the Cherry Blossom Ten Miler in Washington, DC and are signed up for the Army Ten Miler in October. I'm not fast, but I finish!
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