Ken Baskin:  

Life I left home when I was 17 years of age, and returned about two years later to attend classes at Rutgers University for about one year. Restless and desiring more out of life, I continued to attend college as my duty scheduled allowed in the U.S. Army. After one tour of duty in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division (Medical Corps), I worked for Citibank and continued to attend college part-time. Eventually, I earned a B.S. Degree in Business Management from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1993. My major was Management Science and Information Systems, with emphasis on Decision Support and Production Operations Research. Operations Research is an applied science concerned with quantitative and qualitative decision making generally involving optimal allocation and control of limited resources. Then my wife, two children, and I moved from Blacksburg, VA to Folsom, CA in 1993, where 3/4 of us still reside. My daughter April spends most of her time in the Boston, MA area. She graduated spring 2007, from Tufts University. My son Andy attends a local college and supports himself part-time at his off-campus rental home. His academic and career interests are in Audio Engineering. My first post-undergraduate position was with Intel Corporation. I have been with my current employer, Accenture, Ltd., since 09/05/95. Competency skill sets I acquired involve Business Process Engineering and Process Excellence in our Client Consulting Practice. Market units where I have industry experience include high tech in the telecomm industry during my first three years of service. After that and in my daughter's senior year in H.S., I transferred to our state and local government practice in Sacramento, CA. From that office, I worked on a wide variety of projects, and they all involve business, technology, and their effective integration and management. Now, my status is permanent medical long-term leave from my employer now. Life, as always, is unpredictable. However, adversity has not kept me from achieving goals in the past, and it never will. Consequently, we move forward optimistically, with expectations of continued success. In my spare time I enjoy fun and relaxing activities with my family, which includes our dogs (a.k.a., "The Fellas") Beamer (13 y.o.) and Henry (11 y.o.). I also spend a fair amount of time reading and applying information gleaned from current events, computers and electronics industry journals, and various areas of real estate investment, as well as stocks and business. Additionally my interests in our foreign, domestic, monetary and fiscal polices has peaked. I also follow and study U.S. and world political, economic, and military activities passionately. Typically in solitude, listening to music remains one my favorite pastimes - Classical, Classic R&B, Rock & Roll, Jazz, Opera, some Rap, and Soundtracks. These days I acquire most of my music through N2G. My wife, best friends, & I love the theater and arts. We attend operas, operettas, plays performed by amateurs and professionals, art auctions, etc. together when time permits. School Who was your biggest crush? Uhhh, I dunno. Names? I don't think so. I was attracted to many female classmates from elementary through H.S. For me, race was never an issue, but I was shy, and some kids from my neighborhood gave others a hard time or teased them about interracial relationships. Thus and regrettably, I avoided them. By the way, I placed no constraints on the term interracial. I was, and rem...Expand for more