Sheldon was born July 7th 1941. Prior to grade school, he lived in Larkspur, CA. In 1948 the family moved to San Rafael, CA, where he was educated in the public school system. Reflecting his mother's talents, he showed an early inclination toward music, and studied trombone first within the school system, and later privately under Orlando Giosi of the San Francisco Symphony. After graduation from San Rafael High School, Sheldon went on to San Francisco State where he received his Bachelors degree in Government in 1963. On completion of active duty in the California National Guard, he began graduate study at U.C. Berkeley, receiving a Masters in Political Science in 1965.

Starting a long career in computers and information technology, he joined the staff of the University of California at Santa Cruz as a systems analyst in 1966. In 1971 he was appointed interim Director of the campus computer center while also serving as an Administrative Systems Officer, a position he held until 1973, when he left for a United Nations' assignment in Burma. While posted in Rangoon, he helped install Burma's first computer at the Universities' Computer Centre as part of a joint UNESCO, University of California, and Government of Burma technical development project. He remained in foreign service until 1980, working on United Nations Development Programme technial assistance projects in Ghana, the Bahamas, Mauritania, and Western Samoa. Returning to work in the United States in 1981 as an independent computer consultant, his work focused on financial modeling, business computer simulation, and electronic data interchange over proprietary corporate data networks. In 1987 he joined the Bank of the Orient as an Assistant Vice President. His responsibilities at the Bank included the management of corporate technology resources including PC workstations, server platforms, telecommunication networks, and supporting services. He left the Bank in 1999 to resume private consulting.

Now fully retired, Sheldon still keeps busy running Enfra-Tech, a small computer consulting business based in San Francisco. He also continues to have a special interest in targeting computer and information technology -- specifically, modeling and database design -- on real-world science and engineering applications. While under a United Nations sponsored contract with the Volta River Authority in Ghana, he developed a hydrological database and complementary reservoir modeling system supporting the management of Volta Lake, West Africa's largest hydro-electric facility. On another U.N. assignment in the Bahamas, he worked on a short-term fresh-water lens restoration project that optimized aquifer access and pumping techniques. Later, he participated with CalTrout on a multi- year project that modeled the optimization of Lake Pillsbury flow releases as a pre-requisite to the maintenance of natural flow conditions supporting salmon and steelhead populations on the upper Eel River. For these efforts he received a Streamkeeper Award by CalTrout in 2004.

Although having retired his bass trombone to storage several years ago, Sheldon continues to be actively involved in music and is learning jazz piano. Less recently he performed as a bass trombonist with the Marin Symphony, the Santa Cruz Symphony, the San Francisco Civic Symphony, and Symphony Parnassus. Having grown up in pastoral Marin County, he holds a sincere love and concern for the natural world. An avid fisherman and outdoors person, he is a member of CalTrout, Trout Unlimited, and has served as an advisor to Audubon Canyon Ranch.

Currently, Sheldon and his wife Jeni divide their time between an apartment in San Francisco and travelling - with an occasional fishing trip thrown in as well. His daughter, Lauren 'Kate' Bachus lives in Boston with his two grandchildren, Gavin and Lili.

• Cal History Forum - integrates history, genealogy and culture (Beta site - a work in progress).
• TimeLine - an on-going PHP/mySQL genealogy project.
• myAuditor - a proprietary risk management platform.
• Photo-HIke - a GIS-based photograpy application for hikers (mobile pending).
• SRHS-59 - a website for the San Rafael High School Class of 1959.
• PSEA - PSEA's public website and supporting applications.

• Bachus, S. C., "Technology Addicts Anonymous", Business Forum Journal (BFJ),
   April 2015.

• Bachus, S. C., "Prognostications for 2015", (BFJ), January 2015.

• Bachus, S. C., "Reasoned Public Policy - Canada Gets the Lead Out", (BFJ), November 2014.

• Bachus, S. C., "The West Coast Sheldons - Henry Hargrave Sheldon",
   Sheldon Family Association Quarterly Amended post-publication version, October 2014.

• Bachus, S. C., "A Deceiptful Spring and Crafty Osprey", (BFJ), August 2014.

• Bachus, S. C., "Bentham, Larkin and the Common Good", (BFJ),
    Amended post-publication version, July 2014.

• Bachus, S. C., "Successful Web Applications - A Case Study", (BFJ), May 2014.

• Bachus, S. C., "Natural Capital and the Limits to Growth", (BFJ), March 2014.

• Bachus, S. C., "2014 - Reflections on Things Past and Present", (BFJ),  January 2014.

• Bachus, S. C., "For Business and Politics "There is No Moral Compass", (BFJ),  October 2013.

• Bachus, S. C., "Heisenberg's Trout", (BFJ),  August 2013.

• Bachus, S. C., "Of Bridge Bolts and Bloodsport", (BFJ),  June 2013.

• Bachus, S. C., "Antecedents of a Reasoned Policy on Gun Control", (BFJ),  March 2013.

• Bachus, S. C., "The Costs of Entropy", (BFJ),  November 2012.

• Bachus, S. C., "The Parking Ethic and the Spirit of Bureaucracy", (BFJ),  June 2012.

• Bachus, S. C., "Serf'ing the Internet", BFJ, May 2012.

• Bachus, S. C., "Alexandria and the Cloud", BFJ, March 2012.

• Bachus, S. C., "Reflection on yet another New Year", BFJ, January 2012.

• Bachus, S. C., "Risk Attribution Issues", BFJ, December 2011.

• Bachus, S. C., "Risk Management: An Overview", BFJ, Aug. 2011.

• Bachus, S. C., "Epistemology, Geology and Risk Management", BFJ, July 2011.

• Bachus, S. C., "Regulatory Issues for 2010", BFJ, January 2010.

• Bachus, S. C.,"Risk Assessment 101", Directors' Digest, WIB, April 2009.

• Bachus, S. C., "Summary of Upper Eel Natural Flow Simulations", California Trout Inc., May 1997.

• Bachus, S. C., "EELMOD: Eel River Flow Management Model User Manual", California Trout Inc.,
  November 1996.

• Bachus, S. C., "Eel River Wild Flow Study", California Trout Inc., September 1995.

• Bachus, S. C., "STARBASE: An Applied Database Management System for Education & Research
  in Astronomy", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Software Applications, Beijing, 1987.

• Bachus, S. C., "ML/1: An Interpretive Modeling Language for Small Computers", Proceedings
  of the Thirteenth Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference, University of Pittsburgh, 1982.

• Bachus, S. C., "The Impact of Microcomputer Technology on Water Resource Development",
  Computing for National Development, Heyden and Son, Ltd., London, 1982.

• Bachus, S. C., "The Potential Use of Small Computers in Support of South Pacific Agriculture",
  Alafua Agricultural Bulletin, Volume V, Number 3, 1980.

• Bachus, S. C., "Toward an Operational Definition of Appropriate Technology", Proceedings of
  the IFAC Symposium on Criteria for Selecting Appropriate Technologies Under Different
  Cultural, Technical and Social Conditions, Oxford, Pergamon, 1979.

• Bachus, S. C., "HYDRO: A Database System for Controlling Volta Lake", Proceedings of the South-
  East Asian Regional Computer Conference, Manila, 1978.

• Bachus, S. C., "Hydrological Models, Databases and the Computerized Control of Volta Lake",
  (co-authored with Robert Ankrah), Proceedings of the Sixth International CODATA Conference,
  Oxford, Pergamon, 1978.

• Bachus, S. C., "Computers in Ghana: A Decade of Development and a Look Toward the Future",
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Applications in Developing Countries,
  Bangkok, Asian Institute of Technology, 1977.

• Bachus, S. C., "The Background, Economics and Applications of the Cassette Terminal",
  Proceedings of the First Computer Communications Conference, California State University,
  San Jose, 1971.