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| Name | Leslie B. Ford |
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17104, United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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00, 1946
(78 years)
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Modifed | Scott³
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| Info | Les Ford and his family have lived and worked in Harrisburg, PA since 1994. Les was born in Evansville, Indiana. His mother worked for 30 years as the housekeeper for the family of a local businessman. His father worked in a variety of jobs, including as a janitor for the auto industry.
Les attended a local Evansville Catholic elementary school. At the age of thirteen he received a full scholarship to attend high school at the Saint Meinrad High School and Seminary, in southern Indiana. While at Saint Meinrad, in addition to benefiting from a strong academic curriculum with an emphasis on philosophical and theological thought, Les also received extensive language instruction in Latin and Greek.
Upon graduation Les enrolled at Evansville College where he spent two years as an undergraduate. He subsequently enrolled at Indiana University, Bloomington, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French, in 1970. While attending IU, Les also workedas a steelworker for United States Steel, Gary Works, and was an active member of the local United Steel Workers of America. While at IU, Les was a founding member of the African American Tutorial Program, a University- funded initiative to enhance levels of academic achievement among minority students. Les was the first student representative to the Urban Education Department, which subsequently became a formal department within the College of Education.
Upon graduation, Les received a fellowship to attend Stanford University, where he spent a year in a joint program in education and business. Thereafter, he moved to Philadelphia, PA, beginning work initially with an educational services company and subsequently working for four years as a high school Math and Social Studies teacher in the Urban Careers Education Center, a partnership initiative of the Philadelphia School District and the Reverend Leon Sullivan’s Opportunities Industrialization Center.
In 1976 Les was recruited by the Bell Telephone Company to receive training in computer science and programming languages. Thereafter, he accepted employment with the company as a Manager of Information Systems. He worked for Bell Telephone and its parent company, AT&T, for eight years, relocating with the company to Princeton Junction, New Jersey in 1982.
Subsequent to his tenure with AT&T, Les worked as a Senior Manager of Information Systems for Memorial Sloan Kettering Medical Center, in New York. He also attended Trenton State College for two years, studying Math, Chemistry and Biology.
In 1994 Les and his family relocated to Harrisburg, PA., where he worked for the Rite-Aid Corporation and established an independent Information Technology consulting business. As an IT consultant, Les worked on a number of private and state ventures. In 1999, Les accepted a position as a Senior Analyst of Business Systems with the PA Turnpike Commission. He remains employed with the Commission as a Technology Manager.
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