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= San Francisco Frog =

Personal Life
Born in San Francisco in 1944, during World War II while mother worked at a military subcontractor at Oakland airport and father was in the Navy, stationed at Alameda Naval Air Station and usually on patrol over the Pacific for weeks at a time.

The family moved to San Mateo, 25 miles South of San Francisco, in 1946. San Francisco Frog went through San Mateo's excellent public school system, eventually going to Oregon State University, majoring in Physics and Mathematics, working as a grocery clerk during college. He married his first wife in 1965, eventually settling in San Francisco. In 1968, he and his family moved to South San Francisco.

RETAIL
In 1966, with an old high school friend, opened a stereo component store in San Francisco, Audio Alley. Within a year, the partner was gone after having embezzled half of the initial capital, all of which the Frog had inherited from his late grandfather. As SFFrog discovered, he was not a good salesman, so he taught himself enough electronics to repair stereo components and TVs to keep the company afloat.

MUSIC
In 1967, he also designed and built a small recording studio in the back of Audio Alley to record demo tapes for small bands in the burgeoning San Francisco music scene.

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
In October 1969, he went to work for IBM after he was recommended by one of his customers from Audio Alley. After 3 months of training, he spent his time with IBM fixing bugs in OS/360, the operating system on IBM's largest mainframe computers at IBM corporate client sites in San Francisco.

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CONSTRUCTION
In early 2002, after the Recession had temporarily made finding new contracts in I.T. almost impossible, SFFrog began doing handyman work, just to have some income.

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