Most of you reading this page already know who I am so this whole section seems a little superfluous.
I am married to a wonderful woman from Minnesota. We live in Fridley, Minnesota. My wife prefers to tell people she is from New Brighton as she abhores the snappy comeback, "Oh, friendly Fridley?", the catch phrase from the Friendly Chevrolet Dealer in Fridley. We love to go an vacations, have no childern, and no pets. We once had fish but they became cannibalistic and the tank is dry for the time being.
I currently work as a Quality Assurance Software Engineer ( I prefer to say QA dude) for VERITAS Software Corporation. They are a leader in storage management software. What this means is that if you have important data on a computer you should be using one of our products to manage that data with. I work in their Arden Hills office which is directly responsible for their backup and hiearchical file system products. I try to make sure that these products work well before they are released to the masses.
If you are smart you will buy stock now.
Prior to working at VERITAS ( Yes, it is all supposed to be capitalized like that ) I worked for one of the most interesting companies on the planet. You guessed it, LaserMaster ( now ColorSpan , sometimes Virtual Fund.com, formerly NationalTelevar ) Since I was hired when it was called LaserMaster, I'll probably always think of it as LaserMaster or just plain old LM. Anyway, that's probably all I can say without breaking my non-disclosure agreement.
I consider myself to be from Milwaukee, although I have called several other places home. I lived in Milwaukee from third grade through high school. I attended and graduated from Hamilton High School. I was fairly nerdy and worked for the school newspaper and the yearbook. My proudest accomplishment would be getting the highest score possible on two advanced placement tests. Up until that time that was a record for the school district, and a great source of annoyance to my teachers since I slept through most of their classes.
After that I attended Normandale College and he University of Minnesota. I studied finance. Among the most memorable course were; 20th Century Art, taught by Profesor Marling, History of Science and technology, and a creative writing course taught at Normandale.