After 26 years in the Portland area and living in the same house for 22, Marsha and I were ready for a change. We moved to Seattle as I accepted a position with McCaw Cellular to form a new product engineering group. The decision was to set up shop in Seattle. I was employee number 14 and offered the position of Subscriber System Development Manager and was promoted to Director of Subscriber Systems Development in 1996. With the financial problems of late, its questionable if they'll have the resources to recover to the fullest.
Old attitudes die hard.
Marsha left the Oregon school system to prepare the house for sale. The real estate market was so hot at the time, we got an offer for more than we were asking. It sold in three days. Fixing up that house renewed our interest in building another. She went back to work at a RITZ camera store in Redmond, Washington and realized that she had great talent in sales.