I have been working with technology professionally for over 30 years. I have crossed the spectrum from sys admin to junior developer to project manager to senior software engineer.

I have a (perhaps unhealthy?) love affair with technology.

While my main focus is software development, I love tinkering with electronics and other DIY projects. For 20 years, I focused mainly on the Java family of technologies. I even got to co-author a book on the subject as well as having a number of articles published in trade magazines. I’m a casual grey hat, having obtained my CISSP and having wiped out the computers of a few teenagers from China and Taiwan trying to hack into my computers. I also got to contribute a chapter to a book on security.

The past few years has brought a beautiful diversity into my life as I’ve become immersed in Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Map/Reduce with Hadoop and Cascalog, and git to tie it all together.

For well over 15 years, I have been interested in healthy eating and in fitness. I’ve logged millions of kilometers on my Concept 2 erg. I’ve had personal trainers and gym memberships. I took on the challenge of training for and running a marathon in 2011. To be clear, I am in no way “buff” or “ripped”. I still sport the pot belly of my forefathers, but I am fit.