Laurence Cook

Central High School

Class of 1979

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Laurence Cook - Class of 1979 - Central High School

First Name	Laurence
Last Name	Cook
Graduation Year	Class of 1979
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	CA
Country	United States
Occupation	Vice President, Wells Fargo Compliance & Risk Management
Married	No
Favorite School Memory	"Spanish Camp" with Judy Knutson Advanced Biology with Dorm Grams Thinking up ways with Tammy Badder to torment Cheryl Spencer.
About Me	After realizing that I had both an aptitude and passion for working with computers, I moved to Phoenix to complete a degree in Computer Information Systems. I taught high-school computer science for a year along with managing a small computer system for the school District. Later I worked for an semiconductor manufacturing company whose HQ is located near Milan, Italy. This was a very interesting time since most of the management was from Italy. Luckily I had enough exposure to foreign languages to quickly learn some basic Italian and was able to help translate instructions written in Italian to English. I briefly worked for an aerospace company, then moved to San Francisco. I spent a year managing a computer department for The Hunger Project, then worked for Westinghouse Corporation as a senior systems programmer. For the past 18 years I have been with Wells Fargo. I installed the original Internet email gateways for Wells Fargo in the early 90's. For about 14 years I managed an IT department in Corporate, handling senior management IT issues along with managing help services used by our Wholesale Banking group. I have a townhouse in San Francisco on the Bay with a view of the Giant's ballpark and Bay Bridge - which is a joy every morning to wake up to. I've travelled to England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and the Honduras. I've been to Hawaii many times (including being on Kona during "9-11"). I spent several years volunteering on non-profit agency boards, including an agency where we visited local hospital AIDS wards weekly to provide patients with support and personal items such as robes, toiletries, etc. -- during a time when mo...(read more)