He was being groomed for one of the top slots of the corporation. IT Director, CIO, anything. In 2003, he was finishing up an IT degree when things started to slip. He applied to the University of MD.
Physics? He was 36 years old. They must have thought he was some far-out old man graphing those equations. I did it when I was 19 and it damn near wasted me.
He could have gone for Webmaster, but he went for himself instead...