Bachelor's degree from the University of Washington; one of fourty semi finalists in the "Journalist in Space Program" (cancelled following the Challenger tragedy); candidate from Washington; in 1986 working for the Seattle Times; winning a Pulitzer Prize (for a series on the Boeing 757); later senior vice president of Oxygen Media, a cable-television network oriented toward women; then corporate vice president and a member of the five-person senior leadership team of Microsoft Corp.’s Information Worker Business Unit; in 2005 he returned to Alki Software Corporation, a company he founded in 1988.