Howard Fields:  

Hi and thanks for stopping by. I've heard directly from many old friends over the last year or so and also noticed that a number of others have visited this profile page. So, I concluded it was time to collapse the last 35 years into a couple of paragraphs. Following graduation from PHS I spent four years at Rutgers College, and an additional year at Rutgers Graduate School of Management. I married my first wife and went to work for IBM in September of 1978. Our son Jonathan, now 25, is a special needs success story, having overcome Tourettes Syndrome. He graduated from U of Hartford in 2006 and works as a tech support specialist for Vonage. I am still with IBM, where I have held a variety of strategy, marketing and sales positions and reached the 30 year mark in September of 2008. Along the way we've lived in Edison and North Brunswick, NJ, Atlanta, GA, Memphis, TN, Atlanta, GA (again), Chicago, IL and returned to the New York area, actually Brookfield, Connecticut, in 1994 when I joined the executive ranks at IBM. My first marriage ended in 2002 and probably like many of you, I discovered Match.com and other online dating sites. My second wife, Debbie, and I actually met through e-Harmony. She's a wonderfully talented woman from NYC who has her own interior decorating and design business. Some of her work can be viewed on her website, DebbieDann.com. We married in 2004 and settled in the Greenwich, CT area. As for the rest of my family, following a three year fight with cancer, my father passed away in February, 2005. As I'm the local son, I find myself in Wyckoff, NJ on a regular basis, where my mom has lived for a number of years. My younger brothers, Lee and Mark, have both enjoyed success in their business and private lives. Lee was recently named Chief Executive, Global Programs with Wipro. He, his wife Joyce and their two boys, Evan & Ryan reside in Georgia. Mark, as some of you may be aware, has had an incredible career with Ford, where he is currently President of The Americas. He, his wife Jane and their two boys Zachary and Max make their home in Florida. I have been in touch with a number of folks from our class including Mike Greenzeig, Diana Fox, Karrie Olick, Barry Miller, Larry Lerman, Sharon Yar...Expand for more