Stachura, John P.

Currently retired and living in Chicago with two shelter dogs and his soul mate, the author came to Chicago from France in 1955 at the age of ten. After learning English from the dictionary, he quickly adjusted to American life. He began programming computers eight years later at a major bank in downtown Chicago. After two years of service during the Vietnam conflict, he attended Illinois State University on the GI Bill and returned to Chicago to work at the same bank as a system analyst. Eventually moving into executive sales of high-level software to Fortune 500 companies, he developed furth...