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was born in York, Pennsylvania, an industrial city on the edge of the
eastern megalopolis that runs from Boston to Washington DC. I was a
curious child who loved to explore the woods. I loved to draw pictures
and "figure things out." I had a knack for taking things apart
to understand how they worked.
When I was a teenager, my family moved to Quincy, Illinois, a small
Mississippi river town. I was in culture shock and spent the rest of
my teenage years trying to find myself.
My college years where spent in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois studying
computer science and working for the University
of Illinois, the US Army
Corps of Engineers and finally Motorola.
School was a struggle for me and I wound up following my own interests
wherever they took me. I spent time learning computer science by doing
my own research as I worked for the university. I discovered later in
life that I have a different learning style than that assumed by the
standard education system. Discovering my learning style and learning
how to work with it changed by life.
I worked for Motorola for four years as a software developer and tester
when they transferred me to Tempe, Arizona. While living in Arizona,
I feel in love with the desert. It is so full of vitality and life.
My last year at Motorola was spent as a member of their Corporate Software
Quality Council focusing my energy on improving software development
practices. During this time I was an invited speaker on institutionalizing
formal inspections and engineering quality fault tolerant systems.
I took a job working for Wind River
Systems in the San Francisco bay area where I now live and work.
My career at Wind River has changed from quality manager to organizational
development manager and internal coach and consultant. I continue to
work for Wind River as business for Compassionate Coaching takes off.
Along the way I took up a Zen practice and koan study. This spiritual
practice evolved over the last nine years and is now a synthesis of
Zen, Siddha
Yoga and Diamond Heart. I am
active in the integral community, an associate of the Integral
Institute, and founder of a global community of about 90 practitioners
and theorists of integrally informed leading and organizing called Integral-LOD.
Both coaching and leading are spiritual practices for me.
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