Bill Vivian, hails from sunny Miami, Florida. He attended Christopher Columbus High School in Miami, and worked first in his early teens at a local plant nusery, then as a Veterinary Assistant in junior High School. In senior High School Bill worked as a Paramedic for an established Miami ambulance company, Randle-Eastern Ambulance, responding to hundreds of calls a month over several years. In 1974 he attended Florida State University, home of the Seminoles, and obtained a B.S. in Biology. While in college, Mr. Vivian moonlighted as a sales associate for the McDonalds Corporation, and also worked as a Paramedic for Tallahassee Memorial Hospital with Advanced Life Support (ALS). He is a member of the Epsilon Zeta chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity. Bill was ranked second in Fraternity Intramural singles racquetball for 2 consecutive years.

 In 1979, Bill relocated to Houston, Texas, to attend the prestigious "Texas Heart Institute's (THI) Perfusion Technology Program" under the direction of world renowned Cardiovascular Surgeon, Dr. Denton Cooley. During his career spanning 25+ years, Bill assisted on over 10,000 heart operations.  While in Houston, he also worked as a dispatcher for Herman Hospital's Life Flight services. Bill became certified at THI, then taught on staff as a Heart-Lung Pump Technician (Perfusionist), in Open Heart surgery at THI.

 Mr. Vivian founded "Western Extracorporeal Services & Technologies", an Independent Perfusion contracting corporation, in 1982, and operated at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, Utah. While in Utah, Bill trained for 7 years as a triathlete, and came in 1st and 2nd place in his age group at 36 years old. He acquired his Real Estate license in the late 1980's and relocated from Utah to La Jolla, CA, in 1993. During this transition, Bill was employed by Terumo Medical Corporation, of Somerset, New Jersey, as a Clinical Specialist for their heart-lung disposables equipment. Once settled in La Jolla, he continued to work as an independent Perfusion contractor, both in services and disposable sales.

Bill worked in Alternative Medicine in San Diego. He consulted with American Biologics of Chula Vista, under the direction of Dr. Robert Bradford, as an Independent Perfusion Research Associate from 1998 through 2003, both in Tijuana, Mexico, and Shanghi, China.

 Mr. Vivian began his California Real Estate endevours in 1996, by buying condominiums that were in dire need of remodeling and flipping them. He joined RE/MAX Associates in La Jolla as a sales associate, followed by Prudential California Realty in Mission Hills. In 2003, he founded Calwest Homes, LLC, an innovative remodeling business, and his own brokerage, Broker Bill's Realty, Inc. He's a past member of the Board of Directors of the North Park Historical Society, the Save our Heritage Organization, and the National & Caifornia Association of Realtors. Mr. Vivian has been a Caregiver for over 8 years, and is currently a part-time Florida Caregiver, as well as a Real Estate Broker-Associate for Woods Real Estate Services. He also has lived in Sitges, Spain, outside of Barcelona, for 4 months in 2022.  CalBRE# 01360933.