Diana Murray:  

When I graduated from LAH I headed down to Arizona State and got a degree in History with a minor in Business. I joined the Sales and Marketing team at HP that managed small computer products for the Pacific Rim and Australia/New Zealand. During that time I met my husband and we married in 1988. I joined Sun Microsystems in 1986 and began helping build their VAR channel. I eventually ended up running a small network strategy group that did a lot of negotiations with key vendors. It was very interesting and made me very aware of the competition for operating system and platforms. During my time at Sun I had two beautiful daughters, Lauren and Ryann. When Microsoft called and offered my a trip to Redmond to get to know them, I went to do competetive research. I ended up loving Seattle and the kind of work they were doing. I took some time off to spend time with the family before starting at Microsoft. Microsoft was an extraordinary experience. I was lucky enough to work very closely with Bill Gates for 3 years. After beginning at MS running the operating systems strategy group and then launching MSN, I moved toward the development side of the house and ended my career running the team that developed cross-product solutions for self diagnosis and repair of the software. When our third daughter was born in 1998 I began to revaluate my priorities, so in early 2000 I retired from Microsoft to become a full time mom. I quickly realized that I had the opportunity and interest in advocating for children. I joined the board of a couple children's...Expand for more