13. I grew up in part in Leuven, Belgium where four languages were spoken in my neighborhood. I have also lived in San Francisco Area (Palo Alto and Hayward), Pittsburgh, San Diego, Houston and Ann Arbor (Michigan).
14. My PhD was earned under two prominent scholars, a Nobel Prize winner (Herb Simon, CMU) for Artificial Intelligence and the pioneer of Operations Research (Thomas Saaty, Pitt). It was a rare joint scholarship with Carnegie-Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh. I had full ride scholarships through my MBA and PhD.
15. My books have grossed nearly $4 million dollars. I have published 65+ academic, conference, industry, and magazine papers.
16. I co-developed 7 Masters Programs in the USA, China, and Singapore, as well as corporate training programs in those countries and Australia and South Korea.
17. I developed several corporate university programs for companies, the largest were AT&T and Raytheon. At the peak of those, I was the highest paid professor in the university due to percentages of the program's going to the developer. My earnings even exceeded the president of the university one year when I was an untenured professor.
18. I served on a Washington DC Thinktank as a PhD and Supply Chain Management expert. We advised the Bush White House and Congress - mainly on supply and manufacturing issues for our wars and economy.
Why bring up my career? Trans people that suppress who they are often excel in their careers before gender affirmation. We tend to focus on our careers to help up ignore our gender.
