[Awroo?]

Hi there!

You've stumbled across my personal web page, which has been sadly languishing for a number of years now. This is partly because the web has moved on better tools for blogging, sharing book lists, and sharing random links with people. (Services like del.icio.us mean that I don't need my own web page to share bookmarks across computers.) But, I'll admit, it's also true that I just didn't make the time to keep it up to date and interesting. With the rise of specialized blogs for every imaginable purpose -- gadgets, the Macintosh, and life itself, I'm happy to point people elsewhere.


[Sue the dinosaur]
Sue the dinosaur lives at the Chicago Field Museum.
This picture taken April 2001 with a Canon S100 (Digital Elph).

Current status

These days, I'm living in Columbus, Ohio with my lovely wife Jen. We bought a beautiful home in the fall of 2006, and right now, I'm lucky enough to be able to work from home doing software consulting with a tree-filled ravine as my backdrop. This really is the life.

In addition to life and work, I'm coming close to finishing an M.S. in computer science at DePaul University back in Chicago. I don't live in Chicago anymore, but I'll be happy to tell you all about how their distance-learning setup makes this work better than I would've imagined. I've been taking one course at a time since 2002, and I'm almost done. My most recent classes have had "bioinformatics" and "proteomics" in the names, and it's been a lot of fun seeing what Jen does for a living from a CS perspective.

What were you doing before that?

I've been doing project based consulting here in Columbus (and for a while, from New York City!) since 2005. Before that, I worked for several years at I/NET Advanced Technologies, working on talking cars, 24/7 factory monitor systems which could call you on your phone when things go wrong, other futuristic gadgets, and NASA contracts. Java and Lisp, sometimes in the same piece of code. Fun stuff!

Going back further, after graduating and prying myself away from the University of Chicago (1995 and 1996, respectively), I worked at a small Chicago-area startup, Neodesic Corp., from 1996-2000. Sales force automation, e-business and knowledge sharing websites, and pieces of AI around the edges. Most importantly, good friends.

Links...

Okay, I can't help it, I still need to link to things.

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