Scott Chandler:  

CLASS OF 1975
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Bowie High SchoolClass of 1975
Bowie, MD

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Age: 50 or 51, I forget sometimes Stats: 6' , 210 pounds, blue eyes, desperately good looking:), not too kinky Favorite phrase: Find the path that has heart & then follow it breathlessly Things to do: Biking, Hiking, Skiing, Flying, & Skydiving (if the flying part doesn't go so well), Hang Gliding, Shopping, Reading, Computers, Sport Cars, & Women though not necessary in any order of preference. 1st Life: Having snow skied from age 4, my first career was Ski Bum. I wandered the ski areas out west, teaching skiing from 18 until the ripe old age of 27. I became Ski Patrol at 27 patrolling A-Basin until I was 30. When the snow melted each year I traveled the Mid-west with jobs such as: * Oil Field Trash * A Marine ... Da Few, Da Poor, Da Marines * Migrating Farm Hand harvesting Wheat and Corn traveling from Texas to Canada chasing the coming fall * Cowboy with an eastern accent * AAA Tow Truck Driver - Highway accidents scared me away * Telephone Line Man (Line Boy really) 2nd Life: At the age of 30 I moved East to manage a Ski Shop. I was told the shop was in this cute town of Germantown, Maryland. I envisioned Germantown with things like people yodeling off the mountain tops and houses with cute little dolies and stuff. But I rapidly realized my mistake & vowed to return West. Though life happens and I met a lady, got down on my knees, asked her to be my 1st wife. So now I'm still out East. Even though I was running a Ski Shop, and I was a sponsored skier, an environmental educator, conference leader throughout the US with radio spots for VOA in Indonesia, earning a fair living, my wife thought I should do more, (wifes are like that). Well I had always been a closet computer geek & all my meager spare money & spare time was spent with this hobby. 3rd Life: So I enrolled into a local collage to learn about them there computers. After 2 weeks at the collage both my instructor & I realized I knew more than he could teach me. So the collage hired me as a programmer. 4 months after that I was in charge of their IT department & never looked back. Of course, shortly after that, because I was now earn...Expand for more
ing lots of money but no longer going skiing & going to all sorts of neat places teaching & being an environmentally cool dude & all, my wife dumped me. But, in spite of, or because of that, my IT career was taking off with projects like: * Hurricane Andrew - Rebuilding computer system in Miami & hanging in the keys on weekends, drinking margaritas & forgetting about my x-wife * DOD - Training Russian Troops Networking - What!? * American University - Novell's first Netware 4.x install with over 30,000 users. Taught me everything I ever wanted to know about distributed networks * AMTRAK - On-call emergency sub-contractor to IBM. Man oh man, IBM charged such ridiculously high fees. Even Lawyers wished they could charge that much * Census - Designed their National Input System, Installed it & provided Nationwide Training * Citibank - Managing their National Research Lab in Reston, VA * Panasonic - Supporting LANMAN, if anyone remember what that is * INS - Trainer & part of the Network Infrastructure Advisory Board for over 40,000 users, 1,200 offices, 5,000 servers * Airbus - W2K issues for their US operations. Cool place to work with free Perrier & everything * SBA - Western Region roll-out & training for Exchange/Outlook * Westinghouse - Netware installs in their West Coast Nuclear Facilities. Scary but cool stuff I started Acorn Micro Corporation in the mid 90s. I met my partner in 1999 as I was training her Wang INS Miami Staff. I couldn't afford to hire a high level engineer so I asked Denise to marry me. And I gained an Evil Step Son named Kevin:) By the way, I'm so proud. Kevin is in his first year at William and Mary. We incorporated in 2003 under the name of AcornNET.com. Our house, our business, & everything we ever had burn to the ground 12-3-4 at 2am on a very cold snowy morning. But the past is the past. Though we haven't fully recovered, (insurance companies are not our friends), we are working to get our business & lives back whole again. In 2006 we merged with TeamLogicIT growing in capabilities & expertise. Denise & I are still leaping over tall buildings in a single bound & loving it.
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