February 2021
Beginner to intermediate
416 pages
10h 10m
English
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I was born in Athens, Greece. After high school, I chose to come to the United States to study physics and computer science. I did that at the State University of New York, the College at Brockport, in upstate New York. My years at Brockport were formative to me as a person, a scientist, and as a professional. Words for the gratitude and respect I have for the dedicated faculty that shaped my life can easily fill a couple of books, but that is for another time.
After graduating with my bachelor's degree in science, I became an instructor of computer science and a computer systems manager at the Stratford School in Rochester, New York. Following brief graduate work stints at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Rochester, I moved to New York City to serve as the director of academic computing at Pratt Institute. There, under the direction of the vice president of information technology (there were no “chief information officers” back then), I was responsible for the building and management of four computing centers of excellence, each focusing on a specific discipline (art, architecture, engineering, and information science). From there, I was recruited to be the vice president of information technology at the O'Connor Group, a real estate manager and developer in New York City. Then, in the middle of the Reagan Recession, I decided that there was no better time than the present to start my own company, which I did in 1989.
I have been ...
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