Arnie Holder:  

After High School, I went to Colorado School of Mines. Originally I wanted to be a "Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineer." After my first year, I started realizing that I enjoyed computers more than the engineering part, but CSM didn't have any Computer Science degrees. I stayed for another year in Applied Mathematics, but then transferred to CSU so I could go to a school with a computer science type of degree. While at CSU, I decided that dating was more fun than studying and by the end of my Junior year, decided to get married. Well, that lasted a few months--I was absolutely not ready to "play grownup" yet. I did manage to meet a great woman a year later and we got married shortly afterward. In 1987, we moved to Tulsa, OK. I got a decent job at a company called NORDAM. I started as a technical writer in the engineering department, mostly defense contract type of writing. Unfortunately my wife didn't really like Tulsa yet I had what looked like a great opportunity in front of me. So after three years, we decided that she would move back to Boulder and we would remain friends. She's a great person, but we just had different lives to live. After a couple of years, I transitioned into the computer department...Expand for more