About Me
I feel obligated to say something about myself here, so I will proceed down a chronological/geographical path.
Originally from Buffalo, NY I spent my first two years at SUNY at Buffalo (UB) in Mechanical Engineering. I was far more interested in programming, not to mention I was not satisfied spending two hours to complete one engineering problem. The rest of my time at UB was spent in the CS department, though I learned most of my present day skills plugging away at this new “web” thing while manning the computer labs on campus.
I progressed through a number of jobs in Buffalo, from my first real job, to my first web developer job, through a dot-com bankruptcy (eight weeks in existence), and finally landing at a large company.
From here I got married, adopted a dog, and hightailed it out of Buffalo for the West Coast. Instead of waiting until one of us found a job we picked up and drove to Portland, OR before we got stuck with a house or kids. Portland was great. We both found employment quickly, and the city was much to our liking. I had grabbed the first opportunity to come along when we arrived, now, after a year, it was time to look for something I really enjoyed.
This turned into an opportunity at Yahoo! (BTW, the exclamation point is part of the name)! So we moved again, much to the surprise of all our friends who had been hearing me talk of the “promised land” of Portland for years before we moved. Of course all you had to say was Yahoo! and they understood. Since here we have adopted a second dog, and my wife has managed to keep working for her Oregon employer remotely.
I still follow the Buffalo Sabres and Buffalo Bills.
