I am currently semi retired, and for last 30 plus years, I have been living in Marin County, California . I was married for the second time in 1988 and settled in the Loch Lomond area of San Rafael, California with my then new wife Renee and our daughter Michelle, now 14. Michelle attends Marin Catholic High School and dreams of studying law in a few years. I also have a grown daughter, Anita, and four grand children ranging in ages from 8 to 23 years old. Anita lives in Sacramento with her husband and her 3 youngest children, and works for Sacramento County as a certified social psychologist. My oldest grandson, 23, is attending USC's theater arts program and will graduate in 2005. He wants to be a play / film writer and actor. My oldest granddaughter, Heather 14, looks toward becoming a doctor one day. My youngest grandson, Sam 12, wants to be a fireman, and my youngest granddaughter, Natalie 7, a singer / dancer. They're all disciplined, driven, and will, more than likely, make it.

was Born of immigrant parents, in Los Angeles, California on August 29, 1937. As far as we can tell, on my father's side, we believe we are descendants from Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland around the seventeenth century. We're still working on "nailing down" names. On my mother's side, we are descendant's of Vasco de Gama, of fifteenth century Portugal. Also born of my mother and father are my sister Alice M. Paisley / Warner, now deceased, and my sister Rose M. Paisley / Phillips living in Bullhead City, Arizona. Both Alice and Rose attended John Burroughs High School graduating in '54 and '57 respectively. Growing up in Burbank, I attended Lincoln Grammar School, David Star Jordan Junior High School, and, of course, John Burroughs High School. During my senior year at Burroughs, my favorite subject was Mr. Day's wood shop where I loved building things out of wood with my hands. He was good to me and taught me a lot. I built a 12 foot boat there and used it until around 1962 when I ran out of space and had to get rid of it. I still enjoy working with wood and have many of the same type of saws, planners and hand tools we had at Burroughs. What I remember most though at Burroughs, was the spirit of our class and our unique culture fashioned of the stuff the mid fifties were made of, becoming indelible for all time; rock & roll, hot rods, drive-ins, drag racing, poodle type skirts, tight skirts too, engineer boots, black leather jackets, Levies, blue denim, made in the USA, and more. Who ever thought about Jaguars, Mercedes, Toyotas, and "made in Japan" then? After leaving Burroughs, I continued my education attending LA Valley Junior College, University of Southern California, and LaSalle University, Illinois, completing my studies in economics, business and Corporate law.

My first job was with Bach & Company, Securities broker dealer in Beverly Hills, as a Registered Representative apprentice. I was making $60 a week and didn't have a pot to "boil soup." Making things worse, I got married and was forced to leave for a better paying job. So, in 1962, I joined Lockheed Aircraft, Burbank, and later Atomic International, Canoga Park, as a mathematical / scientific Computer Programmer. Originally, I thought this would be a good way to meet a lot of professional people (having a few bucks) so that I could later take back as clients to securities industry. But the age of computers was in its "infancy" and the demand for programmer analyst both in the scientific and business arenas offered vast opportunities and good paying salaries; plus the jobs were fun.

In 1966, I joined IBM in Los Angeles, and was temporarily sent to San Francisco (little did I know I would never to return to LA) as a Systems Analyst specializing in banking mainframe systems. I spent 3 years there after which IBM sent me to White Plains, New York as a Business Professional Services Project Manager. My 25 year career with IBM took me to just about every major city in the United States, and some over seas, serving in varying capacities managing and directing professional services operations and sales for the industrial, banking, transportation and insurance industries. I help build the Passenger Airlines Reservation and Control System in the early '70's. It was, and still is in many cases, used by just about every major airline company in this country and Europe. I designed and developed banking and insurance information processing systems for many major insurance companies in the latter '70's. I helped NASA Houston design and develop their tracking and control information system for the LSAT launch program. During the '80's I was responsible for building new business and increasing corporate wide sales revenue covering over 50 major US corporations. During my career, IBM awarded me, and I proudly received, twenty Annual System Engineer Symposiums and One Hundred Percent (Sales) Club Recognition Awards.

In 1991, taking advantage of an early retirement "window," I left IBM to start my own professional services organization. I established HW Paisley, Incorporated, a California corporation, specializing in the capital markets field providing computer system software development, customized computer and business services, and mainframe software services and sales. We sold and serviced master contract agreements with VISA, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, Chase Chemical, Citicorp, IBM, PCS Primco Ltd., Spartan Stores, and many other companies. We, of course, came no where close to matching a sliver of the annual revenue IBM earns, but we did manage to keep a couple of hundred people busy. In the last 3 years, we have been downsizing and concentrating just on software services and sales. I hope to completely retire within the next few years.

For the last 35 years or so, I've had a side interest; a "week-end kind of hobby." I've been buying, fixing up and then selling houses, apartment buildings and, to a lesser extent, land parcels in Northern California. I got interested in real estate through my father who, years ago, was a real estate broker in the San Fernando Valley. He called his operation "Sears Realty" of Reseda during the '60s and 70's. He and I would talk for hours about some small projects we got involved with, or could potentially get involved with, some good, some not. Later, I began putting projects together myself involving either a "fixer upper" or a brand new house in new neighborhood somewhere in Northern California. I would buy them, rent them, fix them up (with renters in them when possible) and then sell them. In fact I met Renee (my second wife) through an apartment house I had for sale. I sold it to her father who was from Peru and liked to make deals. The deal was clinched when he said he would throw in the girl, his daughter Renee (not true, just kidding). He bought it and Renee helped him negotiate the purchase. There were many wonderful experiences like this although not without a lot of "blood, sweat and tears." There always seemed to be some sort of struggle, sometimes with City Hall, other times with labor, suppliers, buyers, sellers, and tenants. I always thought the "week-end kind of hobby" would be just the thing for me to do once I retired, but now that I'm getting close, I'm giving it second thoughts.

Although semi retired, I continue to work as a director of the HW Paisley Corporation and as a volunteer for local schools and my community. Years ago, I was the founding editor for the parents' SRS School newspaper having served seven fun packed years publishing the paper. Currently, I am serving as the editor of the Loch Lomond village News Publication, the web master for the Point San Pedro Road Coalition web site, and Director of the Point San Pedro Road Coalition Board of Directors.

My favorite pass time is traveling whether to a foreign countries or anywhere in the US. Even though Asia, South, Central and North America, Africa, Middle East, and the British Isles offer many wondrous vistas, cultures, and historical sites, I can't help thinking of France (Italy too) as among my favorite destinations. Maybe it's the wine, food, urban architecture, or the just the general feeling traveling through the towns and villages. Never the less, it's always a tough decision deciding where to go but always rewarding no matter where we wind up.

Another passion is sailing. Although we restrict sailing to the waters of San Francisco bay area and adjacent rivers, we always find it exciting, relaxing, adventurous or simply therapeutic depending where in the Bay we sail. I sold my 1981 Morgan 33' sailboat, a couple of years ago because it was becoming old and beginning to soak up a lot of time and money. But, I'm keeping an eye open for a new one and hope to find the exact right one. In the meantime, I'm still drawn by the many local sailing and racing events of the Bay area. One of my favorites is the "Maxies" 90 to 120 foot multimillion dollar boats, made of titanium and special materials, from all over the world sailing at tremendous speeds (at least for a sailboat). They usually race at the end of Summer. I don't own any and I don't sail them. I just watch them and celebrate with them after the races. Maybe one day after I completely retire, there'll be "racing" sailboat in my life.