Getting started and some history
Monday Apr 02, 2007
I'm finally starting to take advantage of some of the facilities that Sun has for public communication here, joining the Web-2.0 crowd. Guess I've had plenty to say over the past few years, just few places to say it...
I'm currently a developer on the Sun Shared Shell project, which has its own blog at blogs.sun.com/sharedshell. The Shared Shell team (including myself) will be talking about its history, lessons learned, and thoughts on where it might be going.
Since July 2000, when I joined Sun in sunny Broomfield, Colorado, I've been working as a software developer in Sun's Services organization, building the back-ends and tools for web sites used by customers and Sun's own engineers to solve customer service problems. Some of the projects I've worked on are visible to the outside world and many more that are not: Explorer, Sun Connection, Net Connect, Voyager/SunSolve, Service Partner Exchange, and a field dispatch tool.
Along the way, I've been an engineering lead, tech lead, architect (though I don't like to use the term), scrum master, bug fixer, coder, continuous integration implementer, release engineer, performance analyst, code reviewer, reverse engineer-er/protocol analyzer/debugger, system administration, database designer, and database administrator.
Prior to Sun, I worked for an interesting little company down in Tucson, Arizona (then named Global Atmospherics) that made lightning detection equipment, software, and provided data services to the likes of the U. S. National Weather Service, FedEx, huge electric power utilities, and countries/companies all around the world. It's now part of Vaisala's Thunderstorm unit and going strong, from what I can see. Go grab a current US lightning map here.
I've been working with computers & software since my first 64k TRS-80 Color Computer in 1980 (I think it was). Though most of my work is currently in Java, I've used a ton of programming, scripting, and database languages over the years. Probably my favorite languages to work with are Tcl, Java, ksh/bash.
With a long and diverse history in the software world, I think I have plenty of stories, perspectives, likes, dislikes, lessons learned, and maybe a few recommendations.
So, this is just a start. More to come on family -- I have a wonderful little 2yr old daughter, family, life in Colorado, perspectives on technology, and being a landlocked expat Maine-er.
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