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Born in '74, I am currently a Software Engineer working for one of Penn State's off-campus entities. I have been coding professionally since 2004, with an earlier network and PC technician career since 1990. I've been coding in C++, C#, VB, php, javascript, and lua on and off as a hobby since the mid-90's, but I really enjoy the application development and GUI (graphical user interfaces) design side of programming.

I prefer LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/php) architectures for web applications, but am forced to work within the 'Microsoft regime' at work. We use Visual Studio 2005, .NET framework, C#, VB, and MS-SQL on a daily basis at my office. I've grown to enjoy working with C# because it closely mimics the structure of a C/java language. I've been known to write code in my spare time for my own, personal projects too.

With my free time, I enjoy bicycling, PC games, and PC moding (building PCs in unusual fashions). I also dedicate a lot of my time to my local church, State College Evangelical Free Church, where I am the Multimedia Coordinator. I take care of our computer needs and create each Sunday's visual presentation (similar to Power Point, but using other third-party software).

I would be considered a PC modder because I've completed my second, custom PC, and am in the middle of my third mod. Modding is different than just building your own PC, because it involves physically changing the case by cutting, modifying, and fabricating parts. It not only requires an intimate knowledge of computer hardware and components, but most mods also require all sorts of shop skills, including electrical, metal work, acrylic work, and painting.

My first mod may be found here: TVoid PVR mod PC, and my second is here: Gen 8.5 mod PC. My second mod won NVIDIA's "SLI Rig of the Month" for August 2007, as shown in this article: slizone_rotm_august07.html. PC modding is a hobby that is growing in popularity and often associated with individuals who are part of a computer gaming community (ie: LAN parties, online forums, etc.). However, there are many PC mods are not related to gaming; they are performed by individuals intrigued in building their own cases or modifying existing cases.

I am in the process of starting a work-out regime with my bicycle, so I'll be cleaning it up and mounting a few accessories I recently purchased. I'll set a goal to get out on my bicycle every other day, and possibly even commute into work on it. I'm not going to focus on "losing X pounds" or getting to a specific fitness level, but I will focus on my enjoyment of bicycling while I get into shape. I'm trying to trick myself into ignoring the "work-out" part of the experience. Hopefully this summer I'll get back into the shape I was 10 years ago. Wish me luck.

Penn State University, Pennsylvania

I am a software engineer here, but my duties also stretch into fixing our computers since they think I'm some sort of PC guru.

Palo Alto Unified School District, California

Field PC tech for various school sites within the school district, including Paly High School and a handful of middle and elementary schools

United Defense in Santa Clara, California

Field PC tech, fixing computers in locked-down, top secret offices; what an odd experience

Digital Origin in Mountain View, California

Tech support rep and quality assurance liaison for a company that published digital video editing software and sold it along with firewire cards (before IEEE 1394 firewire was commonplace)

Neopost in Hayward, California

Network and PC tech, working with desktops, VAX mainframe, Windows NT server cluster, and PBX phone networks

I am a self-proclaimed geek! I'm sure you've already discerned that by reading this far into my author page.

People I meet in person often confuse me for the Monday Night Football kind of guy, but I am actually very geeky. I have more casual hobbies including electronics, reverse engineering things, wearing t-shirts that say things like "All Your Base Are Belong To Us", knowing the electrical differences between a Conroe and Allendale core of a Core 2 Duo CPU, etc. I mix my 'geekdom', my faith, and my personality traits (or flaw, depending on how one looks at it) to get a weird sort of blend that is open-minded, but utterly compulsive.

I usually take wikiHow a bit too seriously sometimes. If I'm laying down the hammer of wiki justice a little too heavy, just shoot me a kind message about it. I'm not above forgiveness, so I hope you're not too!

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