Candidate for
Governing Board Member; Proposed Mountain View/Whisman School District

MY COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE =======================

• Mayor - 1997, Mountain View City Councilmember 1994-1998
• Chair, Huff School PTA Formation Committee
• Huff, Slater, Bubb, Graham School PTA Memberships
• Chair, Council Neighborhoods Committee 1994-1998
• Council Permanent Moffett Field Committee Member - I led the way in the committee's formation!
• Council Technology Committee Member
• Mountain View Planning Commission 1989-1994
• Chair, Mountain View Planning Commission 1992 - the year the city's new General Plan was completed and adopted!
• Mountain View Historical Association Lifetime Member
• League of California Cities Environmental Policy Committee Member
• Measure "A" Policy Advisory Board Member
• Silicon Valley Defense Space Consortium Board Member
• "Youth Action Plan" Steering Committee Member
• Santa Clara County Arts Council volunteer
• "Business Volunteers For the Arts" graduate and volunteer
• Mountain View Childcare Taskforce Member
• Mountain View Light Rail Taskforces Member
• Safe Place Advisory Board Member 1994-1998
• Project Cause Member
• Challenge Team Member
• Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Network, Member
• Current Board Member, Social Advocates for Youth (SAY)
• Current Event Co-Chair, SAY Rivers of Chocolate Festival
• Current Board Member, Camp Tawonga
• Founder, ROCK-It Science
• Support Network for Battered Woman, Event MC
• Community School of Music and Arts, Master of Ceremonies
• Friends of the Air & Space Center

I am 47 years old. My parents moved to the area in 1967. My Dad continues to live in the area and my Mom passed away in 1983 after a wonderful career as a community service volunteer, working for years in many organizations, and especially, at the rehab pool at Palo Alto's C.A.R.. I have had my home in Mountain View since 1986. My best friend who 1s also my partner and my wife, Leslie, has blesses me with our wonderful life and family. We have three great kids - Jacob who is eleven, and our seven and a half year old twin girls Zoe and Valerie (KNOW FEAR - Have twins!). We enjoy camping, reading, fishing, hiking, Tae Kwon Do, traveling and skiing together. Our family participated in the Mountain View district's PACT (Parents And Children Together), parents participation program at slater school and all of our children have attended public school in the MVSD's newly opened Huff School. Our Son will be entering Graham Middle School in the fall of 2000. Here are some pictures from the first Huff School PTA Work Day. At this year's work day on August 26th, I used my pressure washer on the Kindergarten toys, teachers lounge area, hallways and outside walls. The school sure was spandy clean that first day - you betcha!

MY CAREER

I have had an interesting and varied career as a businessman and entrepreneur. I currently am working as a Realtor, however, I have owned and operated a number of successful companies in a wide variety of businesses, most recently, a Home Inspection Service. Other enterprises I have built over the years include a company that designed and built Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation Systems, and a General Contracting business. I also served as the Marketing and Sales executive for a software firm that pioneered the office suite concept for early computer workstations. I hold current California General Contractor and Real Estate Salesman licenses.

MY EDUCATION

I am a graduate of Los Altos High School (1971). I attended Foothill Community College, and then Columbia Jr. College where I earned my Associate Arts Degree. I transferred to Humboldt State University where I earned my Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Fisheries Biology. I have completed continuing education for my Real Estate License and am a participant in the League of California City's Leadership Training Institute where I am only one class away from completing the intensive program.