Most of the people I know don't like their jobs but I am certainly an exception. I love the information technology industry in general. I simply can't learn enough fast enough. Technology advances so quickly that it seems impossible to keep up. I enjoy learning and playing with new technologies, tools, utilities, etc.

I'm currently working as a senior software engineer at IntelliScience Corporation. It's a Microsoft shop so we typically use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and C# for our development projects. I have been a developer for almost 15 years now and have enjoyed every second of it.

 History

I have pursued a software engineering position since early high school. I am lucky in that I have always known that the information technology industry was where I wanted to be. I've programmed computers ever since my first confrontation with my father's old TRS-80. I vaguely recall poking around the Commodore VIC-20 and 64 too. I worked on Apple 2E's in high school. PCs sure have come a long way.

I learned a good bit about PC hardware from a consultant that I periodically worked with at my first job after college. Of course I learned some things the hard way. I still recall fiddling with a laptop my mother brought home from work and "accidentally" deleting io.sys and/or msdos.sys. Oops! I think she is still surprised I can actually fix PCs rather than break them.

 More

I actually just re-worked this entire site because I am becoming more and more interested in the graphics and presentation aspect of web development rather than just the code for the backend. I am trying to force myself to be creative. It's easy to look at a site design that is of interest and mimic the site. I know this site isn't anything ground breaking but I did create the majority of the graphics you see on this site from scratch with Corel's Paint Shop Pro XI. Paint Shop Pro is easy to work with although I have a feeling it doesn't have half the functionality and flexibility as something like Adobe's Photoshop.