User:JohnV0224

Born in Waltham, Massachusetts at Waltham Hospital. In high school was the keyboard player in local rock band "Tax Free" with Tim Collins (manager) (later founder of Collins Management, guitar), Kenneth Teele (guitar), Paul Womersley (drums, vocals), David Zilinskas (bass guitar), Richard Ballo (trumpet) and others.

After attending St. Mary's Boys High School, graduated from Waltham Senior High School. Upon graduation attended University of Bridgeport (Connecticut) to study Elementary Education. While at UB was DJ and later News Director at WPKN, the college radio station. Also pledged Theta Sigma fraternity along with Steve Day and Dan Bergen. Responded to article in Readers Digest about Mensa and joined.

After a short hiatus from college, graduated from Mohawk Valley Community College (Utica, New York) with an AAS in Accounting. Migrating a bit further westward, completed a Bachelors in Business Administration / Public Accounting with a concentration in Computer Science (IT) at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York).