Michael Evans:  

Life After graduating high school, I attended Loyola Marymount University in west Los Angeles, where I majored in electrical engineering for my first two years. Once I figured out that I didn't want to be an engineer, I majored in physics for a semester. One I figured out that I didn't want to me a physicist, I went undeclared for a semester before finally majoring in economics. I graduated in 1994 with a B.S. in Economics and was the school's first recipient of the Wall Street Journal Award of Excellence in Economics. Upon graduating college I went to work as a staff assistant of solid waste operations for the City of Culver City in southern California. A year later I was promoted to Solid Waste Manager and was responsible for 50 employees and a $7 million annual budget. I left Culver City in the spring of 2000 to start my own internet marketing company, lost all of my money, and in the spring of 2001 returned to public service as the management analyst for the Public Works Department in Lancaster, California. I was the Maintenance Serivices Manager responsible for about 45 employees and an $8 million budget. I lived in Palmdale, California since 1995, when I married my college sweetheart 3 days after she graduated from LMU. We had our son Xavier in 1997 a...Expand for more