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Helping each other with life after HP/HPE. Founded in 2000. Incorporated as a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation in 2010. About the HPAA

Board Members

President and Treasurer: Shirley Kwan
Shirley's 23-year HP career included Asia Pacific Project Manager in Singapore, European PC Business Controller in Grenoble, and Global Director of Internal Audit in Hong Kong. After HP, she was Director of Internal Audit at Intuit. Shirley has a BA in Economics from Agnes Scott College and an MBA from Emory University. She is a Certified Internal Auditor and self-published poet. Shirley now fits short-term consulting engagements around travel and several non-profit board memberships.

Operations Director, Website Editor, Benefits Forum Moderator: Curt Gowan
Curt is happily retired after 30 years in startup and turnaround divisions within HP. He held engineering roles in R&D, quality, product marketing, and technical marketing. In retirement, Curt is doing independent research and working on pro bono projects. He has BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University.

Technical Director: Bill Parrish
Bill worked in R&D, support, and system validation for HP for 31 years. Bill retired from HP in 2005, and has since consulted for HP on server system validation and embedded firmware test automation. Bill has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Membership Director: Cathy Carlson
Cathy worked in manufacturing and customer support at the Santa Clara Division for 11 years. She is now a food and water safety consultant, operating Carlson Ag Food Safety Consulting. Previous roles include QA and Food Safety Manager at Fresh Leaf Farms, project manager at California Organics, and project manager at the USDA. Cathy has a BA in Environmental Studies from UC-Santa Cruz, focused on Agroecology and Land Use and Planning.

Team Members

Finance Forum Moderator: Tom von Alten
Tom worked in R&D, manufacturing engineering, and process engineering at HP for 20 years. He is now happily retired from his second career as a free-lance web application developer. Tom has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Idaho and an MS in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford.

Backup Forum Moderator and creator of the original ASAP Checklist : Alan Silverstein
Alan's software R&D work ranged from boot loaders to business apps -- and from the HP-250 small business system to the HP-UX operating system. He joined HP in 1977 and helped start Fort Collins in 1978 -- including administering the site HP-UX system as a hobby before Site IT was invented, and creating the first company-wide online employee directory. After being cheerfully WFR'd in 2002, Alan was brought back by HP on contract, then worked five years for Avago, and retired in 2013.

EDS Alumni LinkedIn Membership Manager: LindaLeigh Richert Aberdale
LindaLeigh is an independent cybersecurity consultant. She was a software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation, a project manager/security engineer at Electronic Data Systems, and retired from HP as an information security project manager/team leader in 2012. LL has a BS in Management with Computer Applications from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. She holds PMP, CISSP, CSSLP, CISA, IEM, and IAM certifications.

Bay Area Social Committee Chair and Event Moderator: Barbara Madden
Barbara is an Ameriprise Financial Advisor, specializing in job transition and retirement, tax planning, and women's financial strategies. She has owned her own business for 19 years. Barbara worked at HP/Agilent in financial and management roles for 16 years. She is a CPA/Personal Financial Specialist, holds a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor^℠ Designation, and has taught financial, tax, and retirement planning as an Adjunct Professor at a local community college for 13 years.

Bay Area Social Committee: Tom McNeal
Tom worked for 21 years at HP and is now retired after several years at startups, contracting at HP, and working at Veritas/Symantec. He joined the Corvallis Division after receiving his MS in Computer Science from the University of Iowa, and was lucky enough to meet Dave Packard during a division review. He transferred to the Bay Area a year later, and spent more than 12 wonderful years working on the HP 3000 -- including the first multiprocessor platform that HP released.

Emeritus

Founder and President Emeritus: John Verrochi
John was Product Marketing Manager for HP-UX, HP's UNIX operating environment. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the Yale School of Management.

Director Emeritus: Mary Tate
Mary was Global Business Manager for the iPass/Cisco alliance as well as the world-wide marketing manager for various HP partners. Mary holds a BA in Economics from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

TechTalk Forum Moderator Emeritus: Danny Low
Danny worked at HP for 29 years in QA, R&D, and technical marketing on the HP 2100, HP 3000, HP 300, and PC product lines. Retired, he now pursues his hobby of photography – but continues to dabble with PCs because of digital photography.

(Jan 24, 2024)