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About Me

I'm a curious philomath and teacher by nature. If I don't understand something and how it works, then I go on a mission to figure it out - and then I feel compelled to share it with others. I'm far from being a 'guru', but I believe that the best way to learn something is to teach it and help others.

When I was 12, I was introduced to programming - amusingly enough - by the 'owner' of an online wrestling role-playing group. We got into a conversation as to what it would take to create our own message board. He responded that it would take, "Perl/CGI, PHP, and Javascript" in the least. Now, I realized he forgot databases. >.<

Since then, I graduated in May, 09 with my B.S. in Computer Science with a primary focus in database, programming and development. I've been programming on and off since 1996 - more seriously since 2005. I've worked as a DBA for a small company and have been contracted by others to build/implement their databases. I've been using Ubuntu on and off since first quarter of 2008 (8.04), when a close comrade introduced it to me. Prior to that, I dabbled with Fedora Core (infrequently) for a couple years. The points that I've come to love about the Ubuntu Experience are it's user-friendliness and the value and philosophy driving it.

Now, I occupy my time with music, writing, coding, conversation, laughter, and creation. I spend a majority of my free-(and not so free)-time on IRC in #ubuntu-beginners, #ubuntu-beginners-dev, #ubuntu-us-oh (and #nickserv, but that's merely a jocularity) offering help and conversation in why way that I can.

Work

From April to Decemeber, I worked as the programming director of a record label / recording studio in North-Eastern Ohio. My current endeavors now bring me to working as program head for an upcoming video production / web development company.

Qualifications

[b]Languages (fluent)[/b]

• HTML 4.01
• Javascript
• JQuery
• PHP
• Perl / CGI
• C/C++
• Python
• Bash

[b]Languages (semi-fluent)

• AJAX
• Java
• .NET (ASP,VB,C#,J#)

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