Got my start writing programs on my TI-83 in precalculus class during junior year of high school (go Red Devils!). Senior year I took Visual Basic (6.0) and C++ courses at the local community college. (Fortunately, by now I've forgotten nearly everything I knew about Visual Basic.)

The next four years were spent at North Carolina State University (go Wolfpack!), getting a mostly-Java-based Computer Science education (with a fair bit of C++, and a little assembly, Perl, and Lisp thrown in along the way).

The next four and a half years were spent at Dassault Systemés, perhaps best known for Catia and SolidWorks CAD software. Then Dassault decided to throw me and my coworkers out in the cold.

Fortunately, I landed on my feet as a ColdFusion developer at another company. (Yeah, ColdFusion. I didn't think anyone still used it either. It's actually not all that bad, once you get used to it.)

And that brings us up to date.