William P. “Bill” Waters
I was born and raised in Darien, CT, a small, safe little town on the shores of Long Island Sound in southwestern Connecticut, but within site of the Manhattan skyline.  I grew up in a close-knit family with two younger brothers and a sister.  My father worked very hard to provide everything that we needed and occasionally drove us on some vacations that were not too unlike that Chevy Chase movie where he packs up the car with the wife, kids and luggage and hits the road. Our house wasn’t very large and by living in such close quarters with my siblings we grew very close and still depend on one another very much.

Sports
Our father was an "original 1962 Mets" fan and passed along a love for baseball that lasts until this day.  Our summers were filled playing ball with all of the neighborhood kids and my brothers and I became very good ballplayers.  I was even elected Captain of the Darien High School baseball team in my senior year. It helped in obtaining a baseball scholarship to Marietta College in Ohio, which was the number one team in the country at that time. In junior high and high school I played all the sports they had to offer; football, track, gymnastics, and basketball.

After college, there was no longer any baseball to be played so I took up the game of golf, a game which all of my uncles on my mother's side encouraged us to do for as long as I can remember. I wasn’t very good at first, but have now been playing for over twenty years and have reached a level of play that is very satisfying.  I’ve had some personal successes and really enjoy the time I get to spend with my friends (some more competitive than others).  If you know how to read a handicap card, you can check my progress by clicking on the link provided in the left side of this page.

Work History 
My career has brought me to work for some interesting companies, mostly in the technology arena, with recent jaunts into some marketing assignments. I began at Pitney Bowes Credit Corporation; the 1980's leasing arm of parent company, Pitney Bowes, where I supervised the operation of the data center.  In the mid-1990's, I was hired by The Nasdaq Stock Market, where I helped to modernize their data center operations. Although the challenge was good and I made some good friends at Nasdaq, an opportunity was presented to me to join a different type of company.  I took a role as Director of Information Services at an unknown-at-the-time Internet startup company that eventually became known as Priceline.com. The work involved in a startup was unlike that at older brick-and-mortar companies, like PBCC or Nasdaq.  In 13 months at Priceline, I felt as if I had worked for 3 years, as weekend and late nights were the norm.  Then an opportunity was offered to me that I could not turn down.  In 1998, the CIO of the Nasdaq Stock Market called me to come back and fill the role of his Chief-of-Staff and become, sort of, his one-man PMO. I loved this job, as it gave me much insight into the inner workings of the stock market and how electronic trading differs from conventional floor trading. Once the CIO retired, I moved over to the  newly created Program Management Office (PMO) and helped setup standards and procedures for managing business and technology projects.

In 2003, I began the next phase of my career, working for myself, offering private project consulting to small businesses. Through contacts I made through the consulting firm Robert Half International, in 2004 I was able to secure a position at RBSNB (the Royal Bank of Scotland, which had recently purchased the credit card portfolio of People's Bank of CT). I've worked for the Marketing department, setting priorities and project timelines that allow new marketing initiatives to be tracked and implemented using established project management methodologies.

Travel, Love and Marriage
As for my personal life, I tell everyone that I “front-loaded” my life in that I went everywhere and saw everything that I could in case I got old one day and wouldn’t be able to see and do it all.  I’ve been to Bermuda, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.  I’ve spent weeks in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, LA, Minneapolis, Tucson and Washington, DC. Some of these were work-related trips and some were golf trips. I have always favored Florida (my most visited state by far) and Myrtle Beach, SC. I had a friend who was always willing to play golf with me somewhere. Because of all this I forgot to get married along the way.  I was simply enjoying the life of the happy, young, rich bachelor. 

That all changed one day in March 2000.  While working at Nasdaq, I was introduced to a young consultant from the Rockville, MD office who was working for our Program Office.  She had dark hair, blue eyes, a warm smile and was a bundle of laughs.  Colleen Browne seemed to have no interest in me, other than to document my project deliverables for upper management.  After a year’s worth of sitting next to her and flirting every chance I could get in our meetings in Trumbull, CT, the New York office and The Nasdaq Market Site in Times Square, she finally got the hint that I liked her (actually, I said, “Hey, I like you.”) and she began speaking to me on more personal levels.  As they say, the rest is history.  We were married in Washington, DC on Saturday, September 6, 2003.  If you would like to see Wedding pictures, Vacation pictures or pictures of our home and hobbies, please click on the appropriate link in the left-hand navigation panel.

So that’s a brief description of who I am and how I got here.  Please check back regularly, as I plan to update this site with new stuff all the time.