Emmett Cunningham:
CLASS OF 1981
Astoria High SchoolClass of 1981
Astoria, OR
Humboldt State UniversityClass of 1986
Arcata, CA
Eureka High SchoolClass of 1981
Eureka, CA
Emmett's Story
I went on to University and graduated with a degree in Math and just short of another in Computer Science. During that time I managed a couple of Pizza Parlors to pay the bills. During this time I took up competitive college volleyball.
After graduation I knew that I couldn't stand more school to get a Masters even though it might have been the right decision. So I took 4 months off and rode my motorcycle around the country for some 20K+ miles. It was an amazing experience.
After this it was getting difficult to get a job in the high tech field w/o a Masters and I took a job in Santa Rosa CA as a software engineer for a geothermal company. I wrote programs to show where we thought steam was.
It was challenging and fun. But the company was not so lucrative because the CEO was bleeding it dry.
I moved on to write MRI software for the next eight years. This is probably the most useful software that I have ever written. Still working to this day and I'd bet that so...Expand for more
me of you have been in my MRI machines. If you were I hope that things turned out for the better.
I then turned to the dot com in 1995 and worked for, you guessed it, an internet startup. Yes, I was one of those "paper millionaires" where the millions never materialized. I worked like a dog for 5 years. At the end of this journey I met and married my wife. Then moved on to an Enterprise software company writing collaboration and knowledge management software.
My wife and (step)son are an important part of my life.
It's a good life. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area. We own a modest home with 2 Dogs (Border Collies), 1 cat, 3 chickens (egg layers) and a few budgies.
During this time a former colleague encouraged me an interview at Google. I spent a few years there and moved over to YouTube, where I have been there ever since. Great place to work.
If you Google for me you won't find much except for some opthamologist which is not me. You can not Facebook.
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