Jim Savacool:  

Life After graduation, I left Flour Bluff for college in Virginia (Old Dominion College now University). Having played football at FBHS, I was in poor physical shape and entered the hospital at the end of my Freshman year and spent the next two years having 5 surgeries on my back and knee. I finished Old Dominion in 1969 with a BA in English and American Literature. Upon graduation, I was enployed by IBM and moved to the Washington, DC area to work in the IBM Federal Systems Division in sales and marketing. At the same time, I married the girl voted "The most Beautiful Freshman on Campus" who turned out to be too immature and timid to be married. Divorce came less than two years later. I was promoted and moved (IBM stands for "I've been moved!") to Baltimore, MD in late 1971 and stayed there for about one year before promotion came again and was moved to New York City and into the Commercial side of the business. After two and a half years, my IBM mentor left the company for Computer Sciences as a vice President and asked if I would come with him. Given that things had gone pretty well so far with his tutelage, I left IBM. CSC moved me to San Francisco in 1974ish and I was back with the Federal Systems area. I fell in love again and married in 1976 at about the same time as CSC decided I needed to be back in Washington, DC. We moved (with me kicking and screaming) in 1976. I hated Washington so we moved to Dallas in 1978 to be with a realitively new start-up company by the name of Tandem Computers. I opened the Dallas office for Tandem and had great success there. Dallas is where my son, James III, was born. In 1980 my daughter Kristin was born and I was promoted and moved to Cleveland in 1982. In 1984 I was promoted to be Director of World-wide Telecommunications Indus...Expand for more