Filling In Some Blank Spots
New York City … the North Bronx … 1950 … I join the world.
Looking back it was different world but I guess every generation says that =)
I was fortunate in that the City provided free education. After attending required schools, I graduated from City University of NY and relocated to the Hartford, CT area.
My career in IT began in the early 1970’s, except back then it was called Data Processing. During that time, I went back to school to get an MBA.
Professionally, my career eventually evolved into IT best practice consulting and after 45 years, I am considered an Expert in Service Management. In addition to owning my own consulting firm, over the years I’ve held senior level positions in several large IT organizations such as IBM, HP, Fujitsu, CA, and Unisys, to name a few. A chronicle of my professional career, a current copy of my resume and a substantial amount of my published intellectual capital can be found on my professional website, RL Information Consulting LLC.
In the mid-1980’s, my life’s most cherished blessing … my precious daughter came into my life.
As time moved forward to the mid-1990’s, I relocated to Scottsdale, AZ where I currently live.
Hobbies
My main interests outside of work are music, reading, laughing and staying mentally and physically fit.
At a very early age I began playing music, picking up the drums, guitars, keyboards, etc. and accordingly I’ve been in several duo’s and bands. Currently I play solo and over the years, I’ve built, own and operate my own recording studio.
I have a page further on where I’ve included several “sound bytes” that I hope you find pleasurable. Hopefully as pleasurable as it was for me to create them.
Through the Years
Favorite Sayings
- There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path
- Sometimes the path we must tread is laid before our feet, though we do not see the way
- Do not ask how to live but instead proceed to do so
- When the student is ready, the Master will appear
- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
- I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten
- The proof of the pudding is in the eating
- When one door closes another one opens
- You make your bed, you lie in it
- They’re in a cleft stick of their own cutting
- For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
- The only constant in the universe is change
- Life is a storm … You can bask in the sunlight one moment, be dashed on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes
- Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, the talent becomes a curse
- Hope for the best but plan for the worst
- Failure to plan is planning to fail
- The dreams of man belong to God
- The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling
- He who laughs last, laughs best
- Two wrongs don’t make a right
- What goes around, comes around
- And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make