>> I went to Penn State.
I studied accounting.
Actually went to Penn State twice.
Second time I got my Masters of Business Administration.
The accounting was -- seemed like it would be a good foundation for a business career.
The time I went back for the MBA just to show
that my undergraduate results were not indicative of my abilities.
Undergraduate was a fun time.
Did a lot of activities at school which was a good thing.
I mean, I got involved in student activities but,
as a result of that, my grades suffered a little bit.
But coming back to the MBA program
to get a broader understanding and, again, show I could do the work.
And as a bonus that's where I met my wife.
This is -- I came out at Penn State and went to work
for a bottling company, and that did not work out.
I was unemployed for a period of time and went to work for the Commonwealth of PA as an auditor
in their bureau of audits and was successful there and had a couple of --
couple good projects including providing them for the first time with portable computers,
first-time computer for use in the audit process.
I developed that program in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
I then -- one of my bosses, a deputy secretary, went to a private company
and needed a tax manager, asked me to come over.
I came over to be the tax manager.
And two weeks after I got there the company was put up for sale
by its parent [laughter] which I decided, okay.
Do I go back to the Commonwealth or do I take the risk and see what happens by going
through all the due diligences and everything and see what happens at the end of the day?
So I stayed and we were bought by GE.
That's how I got in.
GE offered me a job, and I went to Minneapolis -- actually, Eden Prairie, Minnesota,
working for one of the GE Capital branches.
That's how I got there.