When I'm not mountain biking or playing his cello, I enjoy exploring what is possible with technology. This is not limited to giant Fresnel lenses, experimental photography, large-scale electrolysis operations, and all matter of computing. I like to think I had the shortest-lived dotcom in history. Over one weekend I wrote software that would track packages from any carrier given a tracking number. By Monday I had given up on trying to sell the software myself and sold the entire thing to a shipping company. These days I spend much of my time researching social computing and all of its components: blogging, podcasting, facebooking, etc.
I've spent the last twelve years in software development and management. Eight of those years in commercial software consulting which, I believe, can bring an insightful review of software here on Brighthub. I've been published in MSDN and programming magazines like Delphi Informant.
I live in North Bend, Washington with my wife and two kids. I went to school at Central Washington University studying cello and playing in the Yakima Symphony. After being bit by the computer bug I switched over to computer science and got a job working on systems programming for the university. Terry Niles, now retired, had this great apprentice program which taught me about maintaining and improving production systems. Shortly before graduating I took a job at Comtronic Systems writing a Windows version of their debt collection software. An unknown-at-the-time company, Enron, recruited me away and I went there for nearly four years. Enron was an exciting place to work and was growing extremely fast. I spent a lot of time on the trading floor helping traders use technology to gain an advantage. I left in '99 so I missed all the fireworks but I do have a good understanding of wholesale energy trading and financial derivatives. I've give a lectures at the colleges and universities titled;"How Enron Made Money". In 1999 I moved back to the Seattle area and since then I've been working with Microsoft's partners on developing commercial software.