The never important, but always included About Me page.<\/p>\n
Life story. Reader’s Digest Version 0.16.<\/p>\n
I was born and raised in Kokomo, IN,\u00a0 an hour north of Indianapolis, 2 hours southeast of Chicago-ish.<\/p>\n
Met the wife in HS, she went to a county school, I went to the city school.<\/p>\n
Lots of extracurricular activities, including Band (all flavors), Boy Scouts, Flight Club (got my pilot’s license!), chess, science and robotics clubs, etc, y’know…geek<\/p>\n
Left town and joined the Army, got married shortly thereafter, was a helicopter crew chief for a few years, went back “home” to go to school at Purdue, majoring in Aerospace Engineering. I left school after 2 years because of a job offer I couldn’t pass up- Nortel Networks, as a systems engineer and junior DBA. Economy went nuts, had a couple kids along the way, worked for Sprint and IBM. Economy still hadn’t recovered from 9\/11, so I returned to school- this time NC State, and changed my major to a double: Political Science and Computer Programming. Had another kid, did some interning in a lobbyist’s office, and left to go back to work in Computing.<\/p>\n
That led to a series of increasingly technical work, and specialization into Distributed Computing, Virtualization, Cloud\/Platform-as-a-Service\/Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and a move out West. We relocated to the Portland (OR) area last year. I’m currently working for Intel on a Supercomputer-as-a-Service project. Fun stuff. <\/p>\n
I still would like to go back to school someday, and complete my JD (that’s a law degree, folks…it’s like a Master’s degree for lawyers :)). \u00a0IP\/Patent Law- a patent lawyer with real world tech experience would be formidable, I think…We’ll see how that goes. It’s not as high on my list of priorities as it used to be.<\/p>\n
Thanks for reading, y’all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The never important, but always included About Me page. Life story. Reader’s Digest Version 0.16. I was born and raised in Kokomo, IN,\u00a0 an hour north of Indianapolis, 2 hours southeast of Chicago-ish. Met the wife in HS, she went to a county school, I went to the city school. Lots of extracurricular activities, including … Continue reading About Me<\/span>