I've had a passion for technology from a very young age. I picked up my Dad's C programming textbook when I was 11 years old and never really quit. When I was 15 I met the president of a publishing company on the then-beta MSN network. He was looking for authors and, having been fired from my very first job at a pizza joint for being too young, I was available for work :D They didn't find out how old I was until they had to send back the contract for my Dad to sign because I was under the legal age to be held to a contract. That ended in me writing a book when I was 16 and having it published when I was 17, and in the meantime the small publishing company was acquired by MacMillan Publishing, which I was happy about. Didn't make much on the royalties, but it did get me a full college scholarship and my first full-time programming job. I moved into a job in the contact center industry when I was 19 and kinda got stuck there somehow.
Over time I moved up the ranks in the contact center industry, eventually ending up as Director of Global IT at a company called Upstream. In 2005 I left Upstream to found a software company called Latigent, which produced the very first Web-based social business intelligence tool for the enterprise. It was an incredibly exciting thing to do and I ate massive quantities of Ramen noodles.
Latigent was acquired by Cisco in 2007, and that's where I'm currently working as a Technical Leader. I get to work with all kinds of cool technology here, and I'm especially interested in emerging technology in the linked data and social communication areas.
I tend to blog about whatever I feel like blogging about, but that mostly revolves around emerging technology that I feel hasn't quite hit the mainstream yet. However, I've also developed an interest in economics over the past couple of years, and in particular how it affects the software industry. So you'll get a smattering of whatever I feel is important to the industry on any given day--hope you enjoy it!
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