All4BigGuns, we should coordinate our selves to know each other, I am building a similar background. There is no logical reason we wouldn't have crossed paths, maybe sent some business each other's way. I will post the intro for my character in the other game I ran him in to give you an idea.
"There is a neighborhood in the Redmond Barrens that nobody talks about. Actually there are a lot of places in the Barrens that no one talks about, but this part of the Barrens doesn't get talked about because the people that live there want to keep it secret. The reason they keep it a secret is because the people that live there don't want the world to know that life in this little part of one of the worst hellholes on earth is not really all that bad, it is kind of an oasis in the brutality around it. In fact the folks that live there call it the Oasis. It is near enough to Touristville that you can still hear sirens most nights, but a little too deep into the district for the slummers and thrill seekers to risk making the attempt. The Oasis is not really any better off than the area around it, there is crime and desperation, and rundown buildings, but the folks here care a little more and actually look out for each other when they can. It is the kind of place that a married Mafia lieutenant can stow the dime piece he keeps on the side with his illegitimate kid if he likes her. Where a Shadowrunner can have his brother's family move to after the brother takes a bullet for him.
One of the reasons that the Oasis exists is the Harris Clinic, a place where locals can do for real care. One of the reasons that the thin, awkward looking young man walking out of the Clinic knows he can safely walk these streets without fear is that his name is Devon Harris, he is the son of Dr Maxwell Harris, the founder of the clinic.
Devon knows that after the 12 hour shift he just finished that he really should just go home and sleep, but he also knows that he is going to the 'other' clinic a few blocks away to check on the razorgirl's new mod and spend a few more hours going over rituals in his Lab. He pops his last Caff-Tab and cracks a new pack, walking a little faster so that he might sleep in his real bed tonight."