Richard Carr:  

Life I've had a pretty great life after Santiago. I started out at Santa Ana JC, didn't work out and found myself receiving an invitation from Uncle Sam to come and join in the fun in Viet Nam. I spent 4-1/2 years in the Navy, after boot camp and school aboard an ammunition ship sailing the seas of the Pacific and South China Sea. After returning to the U.S. in late 1973, I stayed in the Concord area, dated a great woman (Lynda) and got married in 1976. We had a beautiful daughter (Kristy) in 1977. We were married for 21 years and then decided it was time to divorce and go our separate ways. I worked at the Naval Weapons Station in Concord while giving college a second try and starting a officiating business. I umpired high school and college games as well as city and national recreation tournament softball games for the next 15+ years. Also during my college days, I became a high school coach in my pursuits of a teaching degree (Business Major with PE minor). I got my tecahing credential from UC Berkeley in 1979. However after five years of getting hired and released in the local school districts, I took an entry-level computer programming job. My career was now in motion and the family was going in positive directions. I've remained in the technology arena ever since. I went from junior programmer to systems analyst and then ended up as a manager of business analysts, system analysts and computer scientists. We had a great team for the next seven years and then in 1995 I decided to retire. I really just ended one chapter and started another chapter in my life. Lynda and I traveled a bit, then I got a call from Triadigm (consulting company in San Francisco), and they were looking for a Project Manager to lead a project at Pacific B...Expand for more