Candidate for
Council Member; City of Sunnyvale; Seat 3

Tap's EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• An MSBA in finance and a BA in business administration, cum laude. I also have extensive educational experience in public finance.

• Ten years' experience with the Federal Reserve System rising from a cost accounting analyst in D.C., to procedural auditor, to cost accounting expert, to divisional controller for the S.F. Fed's 5 data centers located in S.F., L.A., Portland, Seattle and Salt Lake City.
• Nine years as president of a financial consulting and computer brokering business.
• Four years as a restaurant manager for Taco Bell Corporation.
• Seventeen years as a Financial Adviser/Investment Adviser Representative, first with Ameriprise Financial and currently with Woodbury Financial.

• Married to Sue Merrick, since 2001. Sue taught at Nimitz from 2008 to 2011. Now teaches middle school.
• Three grown children and five grandchildren.
• Maintain my own yard weekly.
• I exercise for two hours per day.
• Used to commute 4 hours per day into S.F., now about ten seconds across the hall. :-)

• Nineteen seasons coaching local youth sports teams (baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, football).
• Twelve years serving on youth sports boards of directors, including president of Pony Baseball.
• Fifteen seasons officiating youth sports (soccer, baseball and softball).
• Chairman, Save Peterson Field Committee
• Vice-chairman, Santa Clara Neighbors for Responsible Development to scale back various developments near Birdland, including Santa Clara Square, Marina Playa, the old Kaiser site, and the old Wheels on Deals site.
• Singular efforts to mobilize the community against the sale of Raynor School.
• 2011 Charter Review Committee member regarding a directly elected mayoral position.
• Committee member on the "No on Measure A" committee against a directly elected mayor.
• Co-founder and board member of Sunnyvale Pension Reform, a 700 member organization designed to promote fiscal responsibility within Sunnyvale.
• Often vocal community activist at Council meetings for ten years.