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A Profile of Myself
I grew up in
North Brunswick, NJ, and attended North Brunswick Township High School,
also known as NBTHS. While in high school, I participated in the
robotics club
, school
newspaper, and was captain of the swim team. Following that, I
attended Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
, picking up a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer and Systems Engineering
as well as minors in Computer
Science
and Psychology
. I became involved in the Rensselaer Student Chapter of The
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), and held the position of
Chairman of the Systems Administration Committee (SAC).
Following my undergraduate education, I worked as a security operations
center engineer at igxglobal Inc., and later moved on to carry several titles at Time Warner Cable
in Charlotte, North Carolina for over nine (9) years. I currently reside in Seattle, Washington
working for the cloud services
department of the world's largest retailer
.
I enjoy computer networking, programming, photography, swimming, and trance music. I typically spend an inordinate amount of time on the computer and never have understood how people can say they're bored. I have a thirst for knowledge and understanding and I believe others should have the same. Nothing bugs me more than people saying things like "it just works, I don't care how." I feel that is a defeatest and lazy attitude. This also highlights my attitude toward life, since I believe things should be earned, not given freely or provided via so-called entitlements. You'll never see me buying a lottery ticket or purchasing a piece of technology that has a warranty I'm not willing to void.
Back at
RPI
one of my friends introduced
me to Linux
via the Slackware
distribution.
After much pain and many headaches (figuratively speaking, of
course), I finally got the hang of
Unix-based operating systems and now embrace open-source software and
associated viewpoints. Linux has come a long way in the last
decade, from
barely supporting USB, to working with the newest hardware and
bleeding-edge network protocols. Don't get me
wrong, I'm not a complete Linux fanatic, I also have a great respect for
the FreeBSD
operating system
and various OpenBSD
projects
such as PF
and OpenSSH
.
The Xicada network
project at RPI introduced me to the world of networking. It was
the first time I heard terms like GRE tunnels, OSPF, and multipath.
I was definitely interested, and since then have put forth an
effort to keep myself actively up to date with the latest networking
technologies, even when the country I live in is hopelessly behind in
some of them, like IPv6 (although it's finally getting back on track).
On a typical day, I'll probably spend a good amount of time working
on a variety of network equipment and Unix scripting. I try
my best to stay away from Microsoft products, but am forced to run some of their software
at times. I typically read Slashdot
and Engadget
, as well as the
Drudge Report
if I feel like
depressing myself with world events. I try to stay on top of
networking technologies by also reading the NANOG, IPv6 operations, and
various NSP lists. When home, I'll either
continue hacking on my own network devices
, try to stay on top of my reading list, or
stream any number of sci-fi titles to my TV over the network.
I try to hit the pool (swimming 2,600 meters at a time, at least in Charlotte) at least three (3) times per week,
usually on the weekdays. On the weekends I'll jog 5-7 km.
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