After my time in the service, I returned to college to finish my degree in business. During that five-year period, I concentrated my studies in management and the computer sciences. While attending school, I also worked part-time servicing business equipment, including PCs. I learned a lot during those years, and to this day I still continue my search for more information as it relates to the science of computing.

Over the last thirteen years, I worked for a company in Vermont that grew from seven employees and two computers, to over fifty employees and as many as sixty computers. In the first years with the company, I soon became the go-to person for upgrading and maintaining the two stand-alone workstations; and when it was time to connect them together, I dove right in and quickly learned how to build a network. That network grew over the years. Ultimately, we ended up with three servers, with each running specific-purpose applications that enabled our company to not only keep track of incomes and expenses, but also customer relationship management, automated shipping and tracking, security and surveillance, and the telecommunications systems. I was also responsible for managing daily backups and the installation of redundant systems to help ensure minimal downtime in the event of power outages or system failures.