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standing. Greetings from your new Treasurer of the PPIAC. I have been a member of

the PPIAC for the past five years and I’m looking forward to giving back to the
February 26 & 27, group that propelled me to become an investigator after attending the Estes
Park Conference in 2015. I will be starting my sixth year as the principal of
2021. One time only Pinpoint Investigations, LLC, in Colorado Springs.
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in the newsletter. I have done a lot of things in my 40-year career. I started as a mere child. A

couple things you may not know about me, and why I’m at home being the
Treasurer of PPIAC, is that while studying Journalism at Wichita State
University, I became the accidental accounting systems software

implementer. A friend of mine had dropped out of college and wrote a

complete software accounting package for the oil and gas industry. So, in
1980 while going to college, I started converting oil and gas companies from
manual bookkeeping systems to their first computer systems. No hard drives

– just floppy disks and 128K of memory. It was a blast working with four
people who were all under 24 and present at the beginning of the personal

computer transformation. And that is how I managed to get derailed from
my passion for Journalism. However, that passion never died.

While continuing my studies and working part-time in the above job, I was
recruited to work for a newspaper software company in Wichita. I travelled
the country working with newspapers but I wanted to live in Colorado

Springs and so I started job hunting with my newfound software application
skills. In 1984, I was hired by Kaman Broadcasting Systems based in Colorado
Springs. During my tenure, I worked with major market television stations
throughout the world on systems that ran both the accounting systems and
television operations side of the business. The tough part about the job was
that I travelled 70% of the time and had two young boys. To have flexibility
and be home for the kids, I decided to buy a computer education franchise
and ran that for about 10 years until the kids were older and then I sold it.