Tuesday July 11, 2006

It has to start someplace

Who am I and why am I here?

Darn good question!

I landed in Sun via a road of acquisitions and job changes over a four year period. I literally sat in the same chair for four years and worked for three different companies, nine bosses(6 in one year), and held five different job titles.

I'm now a Product Line Manager for Sun.
What this really means is that I don't manage people any longer, but rather push papers around trying to release a few products out to the world. I talk to a lot of customers, engineers, and some in between. I get asked a lot of questions and usually manage to answer fewer then I get asked.

My background in technology is varied across most styles of dynamic technologies such as PHP, ASP, JSP, Perl, etc. I've developed web applications in all of these languages, and provided some level of support for these and other languages over the years. I've worked in everything from Sales Engineer, QE/QA technician, Support Engineer, OEM/ISV Manager, and Developer Relations Manager. I actually started in computers in 1984 while programming flight simulators for the US Air Force. While still in the service I transitioned to Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) systems. This is the field that eventually took me to commercial software in 1994, working as an Applications Engineer for a startup company called Numera Software.

Outside of the office I spend most of my time with my wife of 22 years and two girls. I'm a soccer nut. I both coach and play indoor and outdoor soccer pretty much year round. My youngest daughter and I tried slowpitch softball a couple of years ago and I have to say I like soccer a lot better. It was fun, and we did very well with a third place in the season tournament, but I think I'm just more comfortable with something I've been doing for close to 36 years now.

Well, enough for now..... I don't know how much value I will add to this place, but I'll throw a few words out from time to time.