Tim Hoefer:  

Computer geek...some called me "Goph". I tried my hand at basketball...as a tall string bean, you'd think I would have been better. :) I ended up settling for tennis with Mr. Boggs as coach -- still wasn't my forte..but it was fun. Thanks to the Prairie school board's foresight in requiring the class of '89 to take at least one computer coarse (or they could not graduate), I found my niche in computers. The late Mr. John Daniels taught computer programming class and between him, Mrs. Bender and issues of Family Computing, I started a hobby that would later turn into a career. I worked at Jack's Discount through high school. Attended University of Northern Iowa's Computer Science program in 1989 and since I didn't party at all in high school...I managed to get my 4-year B.S. in 5 years ;) During my last year at UNI, I rekindled a friendship with a former Jack's co-worker, Ann Novak (Jefferson, '89). After UNI, I received a job at MCI as a computer programmer. I was there for a year, then left for a dot-com company where I worked for 4 years and learned web developing. The dot-com company tanked with most of the others in 2000 and I chose to rejoin MCI, now Verizon Business,...Expand for more