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Who am I?

If you’re really bored, here’s my life’s story condensed to a couple of pages.

View My Resume

This is an HTML version of my resume.  To download a PDF version, click one of the PDF link below.  The HTML version contains projects that I've worked on.  The PDF is a standard, chronological work experience resume with shorter mentions of projects.

 

Download My Resume (XPS & MS-Word) 

 

Witness my massive weight loss!

I was always a skinny kid (5’10”, 140 lbs), but in college around 1989~1990, it all caught up with me.  I gained 30 lbs in 3 months (no change in my eating habits) and slowly crept up over the next 12 years to 223 lbs.  Yes, I was quite chunky.  I finally decided I’d had enough and did something radical:  I ate less!  I set my target weight at 160 lbs (my pre-college weight).  In 9 months, I lost 63 lbs starting around 4/15/2002 and by 1/11/2003 I met my target!  Click this link to see a graph of my weight loss as I was tracking it during the weight loss.

 

 

Download My PGP public key

This is my PGP public key.  Right-click it and choose "save as" to download it to enable verification of my digital signature on my downloadable material.  I will provide both signed and unsigned versions of each downloadable item.  You may also use my public key to encrypt sensitive data you wish to send to me.  You can download a freeware version of PGP here.

Quite often, I'm asked for URLs of free or close to free software I recommend.  For everyone's benefit (including my own), here they are:  (If you find any of these links are no longer active, let me know by clicking here.

Can’t Do Without

Tight VNC Remote Control Software

FileZilla (FTP client and/or server)

Universal Chat Client - Trillian

Universal Chat Client - Pidgin

Sync two folders or compare 2 files line for line.

Programming:

FREE Borland C++ Compilers

Free MS .NET Framework SDK with free C# command line compiler

Free & open source .NET Framework SDK & C# compiler for Linux!

.NET resources

GNU free, open source compilers

Run any OS in a software emulated virtual machine:

VMWare

VirtualPC

Free Database Servers:

MySQL

Postgresql

Interbase

Other Good Stuff

Free Apache Web Server

Free Office software compatible with Microsoft Office (OpenOffice.org)