After 38 years, I have decided to take a step back and enjoy my family, friends and pursue other personal and professional interests. I want to say retire, but from my closest associates, they tell me to “never say never.”
I wish I could thank all of you, but I am afraid to leave a name or two off by mistake. But I will mention three people and highlight the companies I have worked for that connected me to all of you over the years.
Jeanette Tilly from my #AT&TUnixSoftwareOperations beginning. She gave me the chance to lead my first team and never let me forget how important it is to keep that work-life balance. To nurture and always trust in your people. Andy Fitzpatrick, my partner in Cambridge Consulting for over 10 years. Who taught me how to build true relationships out of nothing, and for his passion for our customers and consultants. Finally, Paul Burke who co-founded Definitive Logic, which is now part of ManTech. Paul gave me the opportunity to help build something special, albeit late in the game. He put his trust in me and let me do my thing. For everyone one else, I thank you for being my customer, my leader, my partner and my teammate in so many companies. Some companies that are no longer around, or in name only much more different today. We all rode the change management train together through too many to count start-ups, re-starts, mergers, spin-offs, and everything in between.
If you care to read on, please remember as I will the positive experiences of being part of all these great entities. #AT&TTechnologies, #BellLabs, #UnixSystemLaboratories (#USL), #Novell, #Hewlett-Packard, #CambridgeConsulting, which connected me with some many talented people, brought me personally into hundreds of companies such as, #Microsoft, #CentralDesktop, #BEASystems, #Geoworks, #Nokia, #Vlingo and #CentralDesktop. Finally, over the past 14 years I had the rich opportunity to pivot from serving global commercial customers to government customers, and from product to world class technology services companies like #HPEnterpriseServices (formerly #EDS), #Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, #DXCTechnologies, #Perspecta, #Peraton, #DefinitiveLogic and #ManTech.
I wish you all the absolute best on your personal journey ahead. Please, please do not ever hesitate to reach out. I have much more time on my hands and welcome the opportunity to reconnect and reconcile.
Lastly to my loving wife of 36 years Robin. She has been my rock, my joy, my never-ending cheerleader, and in all cases my most fierce protector. Thank you for making this all possible. On to our next adventure together!
President of L-E-M Plastics & Supplies, Inc.
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