Steven Jaynes:  

Winter 2023 update Retired from IBM April 2014 - CAN NOT figure out how I every had time to be a full-time employee. ,little has changed other than moving to a retirement community. Our residence shrank from nearly 3000 Sqr Ft to about 1750 Sqr.Ft. Housekeeping is easier and the lawn is tiny. We have an enormous front porch where we spend most of our summer days. We’ve built a mini-barn for my shop. STILL busier than ever remodeling and updating the house, playing with grandkids, astronomy outings, target practice, and managing the computers for a large extended family. I thought I was leaving high-tech. Guess not.... NEWS FLASH: Sandi and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary July 18th, 2018! I can't believe she's put up with me for a half century! I’ve been blessed beyond description! July 2010: LOOKING FOR GREELEY CENTRAL YEARBOOK for 1965. Anyone know of one for sale, let me know. A GREAT LIFE! (a long story, which I hope gets even longer) AFTER HIGH SCHOOL Sondra (Sandi) Estal and I were married in July 1968, and I subsequently left Colorado State College to begin my long career in the computer industry. Mine has been a blessed life, rich in a variety of experiences and relationships. I'll share just a few. FAMILY, CHILDREN, AND GRANDCHILDREN Our four daughters are, or have been married, and we have six grandchildren. Daughter #4, our "baby", and a late comer to the family, graduated from Portland State University in 2008. She is an assistant manager at a local Regal Cinemas multiplex and is also an assistant store manager at Starbucks. These two gigs really pays off for us since we're coffee and movie junkies and we get terrific discounts as family members. She's searching for that first "post college" job that pays what the degree is worth. I hope she finds it soon! She still owes me 11 months back rent! ;-) Our daughters and their families often join us on our camping trips to the Cascade Mountains and the nearby Pacific NW coast. I REALLY enjoy spoiling my grandkids. Payback is sweet! SCHOOL Along the way, I returned to school at DeAnza College and San Jose State University, both in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I focused on electrical engineering, electronics, and computers with a smattering of classes in earth sciences including astronomy. MILITARY Failing the draft physical, I didn't have the opportunity or the honor to serve. My most sincere respects and thanks to all those who have had the courage and privilege to serve! Thank you all! MUSIC I continued to play professionally until 1980, when I left the music scene to have more time with the family. I'd had enough of working nearly every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night since I was 15 yrs old. Music was terrific to me and I still play occasionally for church productions, etc.. The Soothsayer recordings are now available on "nostalgia" CDs. CAREER I got into the computer industry quite by accident, being hired as one of the initial batch of Greeley employees of Dura Business Machines. From that point on, I was committed to a "computer career". Leaving Greeley for a better position at Datel Corp., we headed to Riverton, Wy, in early 1969 for about 2-1/2 years. I left Wyoming to work for the same corporate management team in their subsequent start-up in the SF Bay Area. We spent nearly the entire decade of the 70s in California living in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and San Jose. After a brief sojourn to the Seattle area, we returned the the Mountain States in 1980, where I joined Intel Corporation's field sales organization. Our time in the Rockies included a brief time back in Greeley, 2+ yrs in Colorado Springs, and 2+ yrs in Albuquerque, NM. From Albuquerque, we migrated back to the Pacific Northwest in 1985 for a 3rd time where I was Intel Supercomputer Division's Director of North American Sales. We'd become very fond of the Portland area when we here on a temporary assignment with Tektronix Corp. in 1973. We subsequently made it a goal and a priority to return here permanently. Unfortunately, it took 3 tries and 11 years to make it stick. We've called the Portland metro area "HOME" ever since our transfer here with Intel Corp. in 1985. While at Intel and later with Sequent computer systems, I had the honor and privilege of being a guest presenter at computer architecture colloquia at such distinguished organizations such as UCLA, The Air Force Institute of Technology, The University of Vienna, Munich Technical University, ETH Zurich, The University of Berlin, The National University in Taipei, and Edinburgh University in Scotland. During this phase of my career, I began my first round of frequent international travel. I left Intel in 1987, to join Sequent Computing Systems. Sequent merged with IBM in 1999. Subsequently, I managed IBM's Network Transformation Centers, which are a group of telecommunications computing laboratories, with locations in Beaverton, OR, Montpellier, France, Beijing, China, and Hyderabad, India. My career in the computer industry, has afforded me the privilege to travel frequently, beginning regular international travel since the mid 1980's. I took a new position in IBM in 2010, as an OEM Account Executive , bringing my 20+ years of technical sales experience back "on-line". Back in front of customers again. No more wearing golf shirts and Dockers to work. Back to suits and ties whenever I'm on the road, but sweats and bunny-slippers when I'm working from home. It's was a c...Expand for more