Michael Lilly:  

After graduating from East, I spent one year at Metro State split between interests in Philosophy and Science. I spent the next few years in various career pursuits, none of which mattered except as they contributed to breadth of experience. Eventually I became involved in the High Tech community that was rampant in the Springs and spent 9 years at Digital Equipment. I also married my high-school sweetheart, Sue, and had twins, a boy and girl. At lay-off time, I turned down an offer in Longmont and went back to school for a Comp-Sci degree. I parlayed that into a job with MCI in their hay-day where I completed my Masters. As WorldCom took over MCI, I took a position managing an IT department for the National Science Foundation¿s US Antarctic Program. I traveled yearly to the International Antarctic Center in Christchurch, New Zealand and to Antarctica twice. The job was very interesting, but the USAP is a very difficult road to hoe. There is such a bewildering mix of astute competence, massive short-sightedness, and government BS, that eventually I n...Expand for more