By David MacDonald B efore we hit the ground running towards your exciting future as a company, let’s hear a little about the road that got you gentlemen to where you are today. MH: I was one of those kids in the ‘80s in fifth grade and sixth grade working on Fortran and Trash-80s as a pro- grammer, building programs to throw images to the screen. Ocean Pacific was a big marketing logo back then – I’m sure a lot of people out there remember Ocean Pacific, OP –
and we would make the sailboats and stuff appear on the screen, and that was a big feat, just by putting in code. From that point I knew I wanted a career in technology so out of high school I went to study to become a programmer. I was writing COBOL and BASIC and C++ and Visual Basic and then realized that kind of spun off into database adminis- tration and management. From there I got my first job at a large local financial institution that ended up becoming US Bank. I worked with them as a senior systems manager through the ‘90s into early 2000s and stayed on throughout all of the acquisitions and mergers. They wanted me to go with them to Minneapolis, but I wanted to stay local and
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