William Verthein:
CLASS OF 1976
St. John Fisher SchoolClass of 1976
Chicago, IL
University of IllinoisClass of 1984
Urbana, IL
Quigley Preparatory Seminary SouthClass of 1980
Chicago, IL
William's Story
Life
I currently live in the Seattle suburbs. After High School I went to the University of Illinois Urbana, then attended Illinois Institute of Technology's Masters Program. I worked in Chicago until 1999 when I moved to Seattle to work for Microsoft. I left MSFT to work in New Jersey for 1 year (at a startup that 'stopped'). Moved to Chicago again to run an engineering team designing cellphones at Motorola.
I rejoined Microsoft in Fall 2007 and moved back to Seattle to stay.
I have been fortunate to have traveled all over the world, spending most time in India (yes it is really hot there), followed by Europe and Asia. I included a handful of photos on this web site from one of my trips there. Despite over...Expand for more
2 million miles in the air I have never been to South America or Africa.
I have two kids, Harlan (2001) and Anastasiya (2003) and my wife Svetlana who worked with me at US Robotics and at Microsoft. She is from a small village in the south of Russia. My Russian language skills are regrettably weak. Thankfully she speaks 3 languages including English (perfectly).
I'm on facebook (under William Verthein) and linkedin.
There is a "Bill Verthein" in Seattle on Facebook who is not me, he's young, from Wisconsin, tatooed and pierced. None of which apply to me.
I am changing this account back to unpaid as I don't like this cheesey Memory Lane BS. Please reach out to me on facebook or linkedin to get back in touch.
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