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| Cary Thomas was born and raised in the suburbs of Washington, DC. He attended
High Point High School in Beltsville, Maryland. Upon graduating in 1965,
he enrolled at the University of Maryland in College Park, paying for
college classes by working at a Shell service station in Beltsville on
nights and weekends. From 1965 to 1970, his hobby was
drag racing his 1959 Corvette along with his childhood friends and new
recruits to the Shell station. In 1970, Cary completed his B.S. in Information
Systems, began his M.B.A. (also at Maryland) and graduated from automobile
repair to computer system design. |
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Cary is now a Senior Vice President at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.
While he has written and taught extensively on computer systems and
research management, BELTSVILLE
SHELL: You Are What You Drive is his first commercially available book.
After thirty-eight years, Cary is still working on old Corvettes: He has
completed the restoration of a 1962 and is currently working on a 1956.
Cary can be reached at: cary@carythomas.com.
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