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Bio

I was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1974. At age 8, we moved to Detroit. After 4 years, our family was off to Chicago. After 3 years in Chicago, my final childhood move was to Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland was a great capstone to my midwest childhood.

After high school, I moved to California in 1993 to attend Stanford University. After graduating, I stayed in the San Francisco Bay Area to work in the technology industry. Those years were some of the best of my life. Working in Silicon Valley at that time was completely magical - startups, venture capital, the Internet, mobile. People were ambitious, hard working and risk taking.

During this time, I lived in Menlo Park. I loved the weather - warm days, blue skies and cool nights. Fantastic food. I grew to love cycling and running and surfing. I met my wife there and our first child was born there. I stayed in the Menlo Park / Stanford area for 18 years (1993-2012).

My final move in California was to Sacramento where I lived from 2012-2024. During the time there, our family grew by two more children and two chocolate labs.

I retired from full-time work in 2018.

As our oldest was approaching freshman year in high school, we decided it was time to leave California and our family moved to Cleveland Ohio in August 2024.

I can be reached via email at carlinw @ gmail dot com. I can also be reached on Twitter at @carlinw.