We (Jonathan and Heidi) met as client and consultant at Intel in Chandler, AZ and were married in 2010 at Club West in the beautiful Ahwatukee Foothills. Jonathan is an entrepreneur and serial “do it better, smarter, faster, easier, more reliably, with greater quality, less waste, and, more profitability” kind of guy. He served in several Executive roles, but really loved the time he spent consulting alongside some of the smartest Sr Executives in the Fortune 50. And, other people ;) . Heidi was a Senior Program Manager at HP, Intel, and GoDaddy with a degree in Electrical Engineering and many years of experience in Software as well. Bad medicine and bad luck stole our careers from us, so we’ve decided to use what money we managed to save after 6 years of private schools in Boston and NYC for our daughter and our son approaching college, and send it out into the world to make friends and bring them home to us. We’d go back to our careers in a heartbeat if it was possible, but since it isn’t, we had to find other ways to make life work for us. This sideline makes the difference for us to live a life of dignity as we age and require caretakers and doctors.
Our three puppies: Max(imus), Gigi, and Desi (short for Desert Rose) mean the world to us as well as our daughter, whose first job out of college is performing with L’Opera de Paris, and our son who plays Alto Sax and a blue Les Paul electric guitar. They're both awesome kids, and we're blessed.
We hope to travel again one day, maybe find a 65’ Trimaran, bought for a song, with captain and crew :) Well, we can dream. Until then, we enjoy being lucky enough to live life joyfully while sharing our good fortune and our wonderful surroundings with others.