CLIFFORD JOHN SIMPSON

It was 1985 while I was a young student studying at San Jose State University. My father had passed a year prior and me and my family were met with significant challenges.

To help my family, I went to the SJSU Career Center to look for an internship. By luck, that day, the Career Center woman told me of a fresh IBM posting for a software engineer. I decided to go for it. Every student in the country at the time knew how hard it was to get into IBM and what it meant for their...