Shone Sadler:  

Well for those of you who knew me back in Miami my life has taken a few turns since I left Miami to study music at Florida State University (FSU) way back in 1992. Unfortunately, although I am still an avid listener of Jazz my life strayed away from music. First, I went into Accounting (don't know what I was thinking there;-), but ended up developing a greater passion in software development, which transitioned from a hobby to a profession when I started as an Intern at Motorola back in 1996. Since graduating from FSU with an Accounting Major I have moved around a bit. First, I went to Chicago where I worked for Motorola and continued going to school at Depaul University's MBA program and more importantly got married to my college sweetheart from FSU. Right after finishing school, I moved back to Tampa, Florida to work at a start up company, Q-Link Technology, while still continuing school. We were glad to get as far away from snow as possible ;-). We had our first Child born there in Brandon, FL. After we lived in Tampa for about 4 years we moved out to California due to the company I worked for being acquired. We weren't to crazy about moving out of FL initially, but things have worked out well enough. I now work as a principal scientist for Adobe Systems doing some fun development in the LiveCycle division. Since being here for the past 3 years we have had two more additions to the family; a boy and as of 6 months ago (8/22/2007) a little girl. And yes, we are done at 3 ;-) Other big things that have happened, well we were able to take a 3 week trip out to NZ a year ago to visit some of the family I had out there as we...Expand for more