About me: I have just turn 37 years of age and it's 2008. I have been married now for 14 years and I have two children ages 9 and 5.
I have been programming computers for about 25 years now, since I was 12. I started writing in BASIC on the Timex Sinclair 1000 back in 1983. I move quickly from BASIC on to DBase in the Mid 1980s. I programmed lots of DBase programs for friends and family, some for money.
I wrote my first programs in DBase circa 1992 in Charlotte, NC. I added Clipper and FoxPro to my toolbox and became a pretty decent Clipper developer. Over the years, I wrote lots of Dbase/Clipper/Foxpro programs, but that started to fade out.
VB and SQL Server became the new thing and I dived right into in the early versions right when VB came out and SQL Server had been Sybase. I did pretty well in Visual Basic and then the web hit.
I spent lots of time tearing apart IIS, VB, Sockets and Internet Protocols to see how it all worked. I have been known to tinker from time to time.
I moved into the Java Applet space, then into Java and EJBs. For a couple years I did both Java and ASP/VB/COM. Looking back that seems so long ago.
My experience with VB/SQL/ASP/IIS allowed me to get my job in Microsoft technology, where I was able to start working with .NET in the early Betas.
I left that company for 2 years to become CTO of a mobile company. There I developed in .NET on the server and Java on the Blackberry and Motorola devices.
I have specialized in Mobile device development for about the last 5 years now. Windows Mobile and Blackberry J2ME.
Who I'd like to meet: I think that I would like to meet Carlos Slim Helu, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Michael Dell, and Paul Allen.
