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I'm 37 years old, and currently live in Los Angeles, California. I was born and grew up in Riverside, California, but had been trying to leave ever since I graduated from high school. Unlike nearly everyone else in Southern California, I like LA, and my major goal in life has been to move here.
I attended Riverside Community College for three years, followed by another year and a half at Cal Poly Pomona, majoring in Computer Information Systems. I did not graduate--the increasing rates in the Cal State system overtook my father's ability to pay about two quarters short of graduation.
I worked for three years in the Quality Assurance Department at Davidson & Associates, Inc. and Blizzard Entertainment, both divisions of Cendant Software. Quality Assurance has the job of finding bugs, reporting them to the programmers, and generally acting as whipping boys and menial labor for the rest of the company. Good QA is vitally important to the success of a product, a fact that is widely unappreciated by the other people involved in development.
After that I worked for The Workbook, a company which publishes samples of photographers' and illustrators' work. They also sell stock photographs. My main responsibility was Frontier programming for the web page, and I also did internal development using Filemaker Pro, REALbasic, and AppleScript. They didn't pay very well for a programming job, so I left after nine months.
I'm now working for Symantec in Culver City, doing configuration management for over 200 projects. The work environment used to be much better than my previous jobs--I had actual personal space, and they supplied free Mountain Dew! After working there for ten months as a contractor, I'm now a permanent employee.
Here's my résumé. Working conditions at Symantec have been going downhill for a while now, so if you're looking for a Python programmer, configuration management engineer, or quality assurance engineer, feel free to contact me. There's also a PDF version available for download.
My major interests are photography, computer games, science fiction, and shooting. I also spend hours each day connected to the Internet reading news and web-browsing, working on various obscure programming projects, and reading.
This page was last modified on Nov 17, 2007 at 12:15 AM. Created by Ken Hagler.