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Hello Twitter, I don't think I've ever made a proper introductory post and provided a face to a name.
I've been a self-employed software and network security consultant since the mid 1980s, living in Southern California with my wife, and mostly working at home in my pajamas
From 2003-2011 I was grateful to be named a Microsoft Enterprise Security MVP. They changed their award trophy in the middle of my tenure so don't have several of the early rings, and I think my 5-year ring should be at the bottom.
Being named a Microsoft MVP was one of the two highlights of my professional career: the other was teaching advanced C/UNIX at AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey.
MVPs are such a wonderful community. #mvpbuzz
I took a degree in Math/Computer Science and have been working with UNIX since 1981, and wrote in C/C++ for many years on Windows, UNIX/Linux, and occasionally other platforms.
In my work on commercial fax software back in the day, I ported to almost three dozen UNIX platforms, most of which nobody's ever heard of these days.
Of late have been doing almost all my professional work in C#, and I absolutely love #Dotnet
Computer security has been an interest for a long time - I broke root on a VAX running BSD UNIX using vi back in the eighties - and used to do a lot of pen tests, but those days are behind me as I settle into work that's less stressful.
For the last 15 years or so, I've run a public safety network here in Orange County where I live; our 911 fire dispatch center talks to every other fire agency in the county, and this means firewalls and T1 circuits and all that. It's been very rewarding work to support the fire service.
I also tinker with electronics, having a decent set of test gear (mostly @Keysight , née Agilent, née HP - shown below) despite zero formal training, and I build small controllers and robots for my brother's biomedical manufacturing business, mostly with Arduino and ESP32 in C.
Also a huge fan of 3D design (Fusion 360) and printing (Prusa MK4); I have designed and printed hundreds of workpieces - some trivial, some substantial - and I wish I'd gotten into this a long time ago.
My wife Jaimee - who I met on a hike - writes romance novels in her spare time, and together we enjoy good food, wine, and travel, especially river cruises, especially in Europe. I love France.
I've been a self-employed software and network security consultant since the mid 1980s, living in Southern California with my wife, and mostly working at home in my pajamas
From 2003-2011 I was grateful to be named a Microsoft Enterprise Security MVP. They changed their award trophy in the middle of my tenure so don't have several of the early rings, and I think my 5-year ring should be at the bottom.
Being named a Microsoft MVP was one of the two highlights of my professional career: the other was teaching advanced C/UNIX at AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey.
MVPs are such a wonderful community. #mvpbuzz
I took a degree in Math/Computer Science and have been working with UNIX since 1981, and wrote in C/C++ for many years on Windows, UNIX/Linux, and occasionally other platforms.
In my work on commercial fax software back in the day, I ported to almost three dozen UNIX platforms, most of which nobody's ever heard of these days.
Of late have been doing almost all my professional work in C#, and I absolutely love #Dotnet
Computer security has been an interest for a long time - I broke root on a VAX running BSD UNIX using vi back in the eighties - and used to do a lot of pen tests, but those days are behind me as I settle into work that's less stressful.
For the last 15 years or so, I've run a public safety network here in Orange County where I live; our 911 fire dispatch center talks to every other fire agency in the county, and this means firewalls and T1 circuits and all that. It's been very rewarding work to support the fire service.
I also tinker with electronics, having a decent set of test gear (mostly @Keysight , née Agilent, née HP - shown below) despite zero formal training, and I build small controllers and robots for my brother's biomedical manufacturing business, mostly with Arduino and ESP32 in C.
Also a huge fan of 3D design (Fusion 360) and printing (Prusa MK4); I have designed and printed hundreds of workpieces - some trivial, some substantial - and I wish I'd gotten into this a long time ago.
My wife Jaimee - who I met on a hike - writes romance novels in her spare time, and together we enjoy good food, wine, and travel, especially river cruises, especially in Europe. I love France.
