Technology has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. One of my earliest memories is of my father repairing our Zenith vacuum tube television with a Tektronix (1)535 oscilloscope. I was probably three or four years old, and remember Jimmy Carter on the screen as president, so I'm guessing it was 1979 or 1980.
My first computer was a TI-99/4A, which I was programming in BASIC in around 1982 or 1983. My family bought our first "real" computer in 1987, an 8 MHz '286, which I programmed in assembly language and then Microsoft QuickC in about 1990.
After an uneventful experience as an academic underachiever in junior high and high school, I studied Computer Science at the University of Utah, eventually receiving a Bachelor of Science degree with honors.
I started working in 2000, and I’ve had a quarter century career as a software engineer. From C and C++ in college, to 15 years working in enterprise Java (whatever it’s being called these days), to 10 years building services in Go. Along the way, I was listed as an inventor on a couple of patents, and received recognition as a contributor to a technological Emmy award (no, I don’t have a statue, only a certificate almost suitable for framing).
As of 2026, I’m on a career sabbatical. That’s a nice way of saying that I’m unemployed, my attempts to find a new job have been unsuccessful, and I’m just rolling with it. I’m spending a lot of time working on mixed signal electronics, and embedded programming in C on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 and RP2350.