I was born on April 12, 1976, in the small mountain town of Quincy in Northern
California. My family moved to Grass Valley (where I picked up a sister),
then to Novato, then to Sacramento where I started first grade. I went to Trajan
Elementary School, then Arcade Junior High, then Casa Roble Fundamental High
School. After completing my required education, I grabbed a tiger by the tail:
I went to The California
Institute of Technology in Pasadena, better known as
Caltech, and survived
four years as a proud member of
Ruddock House. I
graduated with a BS in Computer Science in 1998.
I moved to Bellevue, Washington,
and worked for a large, well known
software company. I loved it, and I am proud to have been
part of the team that shipped Windows 2000.
A college professor of mine recruited me to work with him writing financial software.
Faced with a choice between the free-agent life style and being a solid company man, I decided to
take the adventurous route. I jumped ship but ended up on the wrong one. I worked in White Plains
for a year before managing to join up with my professor in Minneapolis. There I am part of the team
developing an automatic trading system for Deephaven Capital Management.
Can you believe it?
They still pay me to do what I love to do!
At the same time I joined Deephaven, a more important event occurred:
Michelle and I got married June 30, 2001!
Michelle is studying to be a radiologist. She has graduated from medical school and is doing her
internship at St. Johns Mercy in St. Louis, where we currently live. Next she is going do her
radiology residency at UT Houston for four years.
-- 2002-12-22
Amusements, Interests, and Obsessions
Computer Programming
I love programming. I'm not sure why. I think its the
thrill of creating a masterpiece. It's a bit like being a
baker: you take the boring stuff like flour, butter, sugar,
and eggs, slave away over a hot oven, mixing, pouring, and
kneading, and come out with something great that
others can enjoy, like cookies or a cake or brownies.
I've used C, C++, MODULA3, 65C02 Assembly, x86
Assembly, Fuzzball MPI, Distributed MPI, Lingo, Lisp, CGI,
HTML, DHTML, VRML,
Pascal-S, Java, JavaScript, VBScript, OpenGL, OpenInventor, Applesoft Basic
:), plus a few more I don't remember off hand.
Maybe I'll learn Intercal next.
"Yeah, well it's all fine and dandy to
claim you can write a program. Let's see some proof!
Put your code where your mouth is, LOGO boy!"
Hey, check out the projects section. The good stuff will be there,
sooner or later.
The Outdoors
I love walking and hiking. I love going camping and hope
to do more backpacking. I love spelunking.
I love body surfing and boogie boarding (oh yeah, Californian
to the core!). I also love swimming and snorkeling.
Anthropomorphics
If animals could talk, oh the
stories they'd tell! It could be something like Jonathan
Livingston Seagull, or Watership Down, or even Bugs
Bunny! My writing and
artwork sections would
be the places to go if this piques your interest.
Reading
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds
passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and
unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the
sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps
as in a mine until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart."
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Science Fiction rules!
A few great authors:
- Isaac Asimov
- Anne McCaffery
- Piers Anthony
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- Arthur C. Clarke
- Orson Scott Card
- Stephen R. Boyette
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In fact, there are some authors you can only find
on the net:
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Music
I love to listen to it, I love to sing it.
A few great artists:
- Elton John
- James Taylor
- Collin Raye
- John Williams
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- Jim Croce
- Billy Joel
- Garth Brooks
- Hans Zimmer
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- Joe Diffie
- Michael Bolton
- Brooks & Dunn
- Jerry Goldsmith
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I am currently building up my MP3 collection. MP3's are great!
Ever get one of those CDs with only one good song? You get stuck
listening to that song over and over, or you never listen to it. Now, you can
just throw it in a playlist and junk the rest of the CD. You can also mix songs
from many CDs without buying a changer or worrying about 'random' bringing up a
bad song. :)
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C o m m e n t s :
updated: 2004-10-21 (1303 days ago)
Not sure how i ended up at your site but i found my self spending some time here. What encouraged me to
stay and read more about your life is the fact that you worked for MICROSOFT. I am a senior at
Penn State U and will be grad. in summer with a BS in software integration, so i admire your successful
career. Hopefuly next year i will be attending RIT to pursue a MS in Information security and assurance.
My main purpose for writiing to you is i was wondering what it took to get into a good corporation like
MS. Did you have a high gpa 3.5+, i only have a 3.0 and it bothers me. I would like to know more about
your accademic background and knowlege areas. Specific languages you know and what ones you think would
be worth getting to kno....i have a long list under my sleave but not too in debt with any of them.
some include XML,JAVA, C++, VB, SQL, and ASP. Drop me a msg at jak424@psu.edu or ill return here to see
if you posted anything back. Good luck with the site....(wheres all those photo shop graphics at)!!
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