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So far, our wizards home pages have been pretty flippant. It was more a question of not having the time to work up anything because we have been to busy entertaining you on the Bay County Home Pages. However, I’ll take a little time now to tell you who I am.
As Chief Financial Officer of the American Pump Group, a consortium of industrial pumping equipment manufacturers, I do a little more than most CFOs. Yes, I negotiate large financial packages for our company and I am over the comptrollership of the group. However, I am also a member of the group’s Board of Directors and I am often placed in charge of various and varying projects not related to finance and accounting. Because of my computer background over the last 20 years, I am also in charge of the group's market support department, which does such things as DTP, DTV, and market research. These days, I am also President of one of the groups subsidiaries, InterCity Oz.
I began my computing career on an IBM 360/370 but soon migrated to first a mini (an Anderson Jacobson which one early morning about 2:00 am I calmly rolled to the window in my second story office and heaved it out) and then to the old S-100 bus micros (Sol Processor Technology). During those days, I helped develop some of the first accounting software available for micro computing. I got published some in an early computer journal called Interface Age, and was one of the first sign-ups on CompuServe at 300 b on a phone coupled modem. These days, part of my job entails running a fairly large PC network, and of course, being a publisher on the internet.
But all of that is not what InterCity Oz is about. InterCity Oz is really about my father. You see, he was an insurance agent in a very small town before his death several years ago. In that setting, he was different than how most people think of insurance agents. Every morning, he set down to coffee at the local restaurant with half his clientele. If a farmer had a cow that died, he’d tell him to get a chain and drag him down to the highway. I once saw him take an insurance companies supplies (policies and stuff) that he felt had wronged one of his clients and deposit it in the middle of the highway in front of his office. Basically, I grew up with a since of loyalty to the people who do business with me, and that is how InterCity Oz is run.
Other then that, I am 43 years old, divorced, have two beautiful daughters who are both getting married this year (the youngest is getting a degree in nursing and the older has a degree in Mas Com and is a locally well know radio DJ), have degrees in Computer Science and Accounting, etc. etc. etc. BTW, you might want to read a little of our FAQ and marketing pages. These explain some of my theories on internet marketing, which happen to be working pretty well for us. Well, not pretty well. More like fantastic.