Shawn Robak:  

Life Greetings sports fans... After graduating I hung around the UP for 3 years while involved in a serious relationship. I worked for Bingham's Boat Works and then Zambon's Kawasaki, cruised 3rd street on my Ninja with guys from KI, (Amy Bucknell joined us on her Ninja sometimes - where is she now?). Then the based started closing and I knew I had to do something creative with my life. Off to college! First I went to MSU. First semester was Telecomm - radio & tv... fitting as I was DJing all the dances and doing a lot of the GHS TV stuff with Brian Siebe and Dieter for Jim Dellies. After 1 semester I switched to Computer Science and a year and a half later I transferred to Indiana University as their CS program was better geared to what I wanted to do afterwards. I stayed on at IU and worked for a couple different departments as their network admin and help desk, also taught some classes. Then I moved to Chicago and was the Manager of Information Systems for IDEO Design. After 6 months living downtown I knew it wasn't for me - at least not while flying solo. I moved back to Indiana and took a job again at IU as a network administrator at the Alumni Association. The day I was leaving Chicago I met my future wife - Juana. After several visits and a lot of expensive phone bills, she moved in with me and began pursuing her MBA at IU. While working for the university I had also begun the state police academy and was later a deputy sheriff in Monroe County - I did this about 30 hours a week in addition to full time at the University. 4 years later Juana and I moved to the Chicago suburbs where she now works for Nielsen TV Ratings as a bi-lingual recruiter and I am a senior network administrator for a company near O'H...Expand for more