William Elenitsky:  

I always wanted to be a Policeman when I grew up. My family and friends thought that it was a Stupid idea. As it turns out, they were Right. My hero has always been my brother. We are very close. He was my inspiration to become a policeman since he himself is one with L.A.P.D. Where have I lived and Why did I move good question. During High School I was really into Civil Air Patrol and flying as well as Law Enforcement. I got my private pilots license during high school. Took Law Enforcement classes taught by L.A.P.D on Saturdays for over a year. This enabled me to obtain enough units to only take three classes my senior year. This later paid off as I became a reserve police officer for the city of San Fernando. After high school I worked and went to college. All my search and rescue training with Civil Air Patrol enabled me to start working for an ambulance company in L.A. County. It took me a year but I was certified as a Los Angeles County Certified Paramedic and worked for Professional Ambulance & Warner Brothers Studios. I later lost my vision due to Diabetic Retinropathy and had to go back to school to learn Braille and programming for the blind. Luckily, after a year and several laser surgeries I regained my eye sight. That was when I got into telecommunications with System Development Corporation (SDC). This is where I met my wife. She worked for SDC at a contract site located in Des Moines, Iowa. This was the beginning of the first computer dating as we talked over our terminals. In the mid eighties I transferred from the corporate computer facility to Iowa to work on the Iowa State Medicaid contract where we were married. I later accepted a position with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Iowa (aka IASD)) as their senior electronic claims analyst/network engineer. I next took a position of a computer operations analyst & wide area network manager. I was selected to work on a project to build a private network to allow inter communications for all Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. After the project I accepted a position with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association located in Chicago, I as a Senior Network Analyst. So we packed our bags and moved to Naperville, Illinois. In Chicago, I worked for the Association as a Senior Network Engineer. Worked there for several years on many diverse projects impacting the unified network. I next accepted a position with Unisys Network Enable as a Senior Network Engineer. I was about ready to transfer to Omaha Nebraska when I was offered a job with General Electric Technology Management Services as a Network Design Engineer so we stayed in Illinois I was later promoted to Director of Network Infrastructure and Data Center. I almost excepted a position for General Electric Capital as Director of their network but it would have meant moving to New Jersey....Expand for more