Ted Prodromou

My career started way back in 1980, after I moved west from a small town in northwestern Pennsylvania. I was 21 and Silicon Valley was the best place for me to find a job in the computer golden-gate-2industry so off I went.I worked for incredible companies like IBM, DEC and Cellular One, all industry leaders at the time. I got my foot into the computer industry just as it took off in the 1980’s. I moved into computer networking as it evolved then moved into the cellular industry when cell phones were bigger than a brick.In the late 1990’s, during the dot com boom, I started my own consulting firm because I wanted to spend more time with my family. My business took off and I had the flexibility to drive my kids on field trips and coach their soccer, basketball, softball and baseball teams. I wouldn’t trade those years for anything.When the dot com crash hit in 2000-2001, my business collapsed and my twenty year career in the high tech world ended abruptly. My safety net was gone and my