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I am a computer software professional and high-tech manager with considerable experience designing and developing software and managing developers and projects. Ever since I was a kid in school, I've been one of those people who always seem somehow to end up "in charge" in any group setting. In the early 1990s, with the help of a great mentor, I made a career transition from being a software engineer and technical leader to being a professional manager. I found that I enjoy business management, project mana
Opportunities changed after the 2001-2002 dot-com bomb. I refreshed some tech skills, and dove head-first back into the bits and bytes of technology. In a small-company environment, I found ways to succeed as project manager and team leader while contributing as application architect and designer at the same time. Five Things I'm Good At Figuring out business requirements and translating them into technology applications. Cutting through the fog and getting things done. Building technology teams that use re
Since well before the World Wide Web, in the dawn of the Internet, my main hobby has been hosting and running motorcyclist-oriented e-mail discussion forums AKA "mailing lists". I started with Unix freeware I ran in borrowed computer time. In the mid-1990s, my great friend H Marc Lewis bought some equipment and contracted for co-location space and bandwidth through a real ISP paid for with his own money and donations, and we became official. Almost respectable.
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