07/09/09

About us...

Jackie & Frank met in a parking garage n Pottsville PA while Frank and his friend Mark were just getting back fro a SCC3 Chorus gig. Jackie parked there as it was across the street from here apartment. After dating for just about a year, they were engaged and married on October 9, 1993. After a few years living in a nice house in Minersville, PA, Jackie had a great opportunity to take a job in Eastern WA (Walla Walla). They moved out from PA in October 1997 to Walla Walla, WA. due to issues her company dropped plans to add the store there and after only a month, had to move a little north to Spokane, WA. After a few months there, an opening came up in the Auburn, WA Store and they moved again in March 1998 to Tacoma, WA. They since moved to a few other communities as they found nicer areas to live, among them, Auburn, then Kent, finally finding our new house in the Kent/Covington area in November 2006.

Jackie was born and raised in Boyertown, PA (New Berlinville to be exact). This is one of many suburbs of Philadelphia, PA. She went to school in the Boyertown School District and graduated in 1983. She worked as a Food Service manager, a bank teller, Video Rental store manager when she met Frank in Pottsville.

She left the video store for a nationwide game and software store where put her talented people and management skills to good use. This job eventually led her and Frank to move out west where she eventually became the regional manager through most of the Puget sound stores. Jackie eventually left that job for one with Holland America Cruise Lines as a call center rep and eventually team manager.

She left Holland America for a new role that ended up turning into another management role in a travel agency, Cruise Specialists. Where she worked with all sorts of folks customers and staff alike. After a few years there she moved to a role with a vendor at Microsoft helping to recruit and bring in College candidates for the company.

Frank was born in Pottsville, PA and raised in Llewellyn. It is a suburb of Pottsville... which is a FAR suburb of Allentown, Reading, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, PA. Ok its not really a suburb, more like a hick town, but he called it home. He went to School at Minersville, PA and graduated in 1986. He went to college Outside of Allentown, PA. After graduating he became an assistant manager of a Sporting Goods store in Pottstown, PA. He eventually moved home to manage a store in the same chain in Pottsville, where ironically he met Jackie.

Frank started working for a small wireless company in a call center and eventually transitioned over to VoiceStream Wireless which eventually became T-Mobile USA, Inc. In his time there he became the numbering administrator, Project manager, Analyst and eventually Application Support Manager for both the Wireless Number Portability launch and the Numbering teams. He switched over to the Customer Care department as a billing system analyst in 2007 and is now a Sr Analyst working on system and software releases for them.

After many years of trying Jackie & Frank had their son Tommy on July 21, 2001. Tommy has been the joy of their life. Tommy started kindergarten at Martin Sortun, Kent School District, in September 2006. Tommy will be moving to our local school now called Horizon Elementary this September. He really started riding his scooter a lot this summer and he celebrates his 8th birthday this year.

Their story goes on... keep watching for more updates...