Currently a webmaster, database administrator, and computer programmer in Washington, DC. I was a crime analyst in California, United States of America, specializing in so-called "major crimes." Before that, I had varied roles in the information technology industry for more years than I care to admit. My experiences were quite broad:

  • software development in a variety of languages (see the userboxes to the right under "computer languages")
  • user support
  • server administration
  • network administration and monitoring
  • data storage capacity planning
  • life-critical and mission critical system support for law enforcement
  • BlackBerry support
  • database administration
  • technology policy development

I've done all of this without a computer science degree.

My interests include weight training (several times each week), securities investing, learning languages, cooking, martial arts (looking for a dojo), sword collecting (especially katanas), and sword fighting (iaijutsu and koryu though there don't seem to be any easily accessible dojos nearby.