apprentice
I am a Software Quality Assurance Engineer and part-time software developer at my third startup, called Bluesocket. We make a wireless gateway that sits between a wireless network and the corporate network and provides authentication, authorization, QoS, encryption and much more. (UPDATED 03/30/2005) We now make a management gateway and have a couple of new products coming out soon. The gateway product has become incredibly complex in these 3-1/2 years!
The first startup made a content distribution system that had an underlying multicast file transfer protocol for and was used by companies from Wal*Mart to General Motors to Goldman Sachs, too many to name.
Unfortunately, the first one was "acquired" through a stock swap by an "internet infrastructure" startup (can you say, "dot bomb?" or "why did I ever buy that stock!?!").
(Updated 03/30/2005)The current startup has the best chance of success of any of the three. In fact, I'd be shocked if it didn't make it.
I use Perl for automating test procedures and various other things.
(Updated 03/30/2005)I'm now a mid-40s guy, married with 2 children in elementary school, still living in Arlington, Massachusetts, USA. I've lived there almost 8 years now, the longest I've ever lived in one place in my entire life!
My interests (besides Perl!) include hiking, backpacking, rock and ice climbing, canoeing, sailing, and triathlon. I've also become very "bad" at "go fish" since I've had kids...I never knew losing could be so much fun!(Updated 03/30/2005)I've dropped the triathloning(ok, it was just training, never actually did one), haven't done any backpacking or ice climbing and not much rock climbing in the last several years, though I have great hopes for the future. On the other hand, I have been learning to play acoustic guitar and learning Spanish(I am now at an intermediate level and can understand a lot of what I hear in Spanish language movies and I do a lot of reading in Spanish. I have also learned to be much more subtle in 'losing' games to the kids. They used to get mad if they lost, now they get mad if I lose too obviously. My how the times they are a'changing!
The first startup made a content distribution system that had an underlying multicast file transfer protocol for and was used by companies from Wal*Mart to General Motors to Goldman Sachs, too many to name.
Unfortunately, the first one was "acquired" through a stock swap by an "internet infrastructure" startup (can you say, "dot bomb?" or "why did I ever buy that stock!?!").
(Updated 03/30/2005)The current startup has the best chance of success of any of the three. In fact, I'd be shocked if it didn't make it.
I use Perl for automating test procedures and various other things.
(Updated 03/30/2005)I'm now a mid-40s guy, married with 2 children in elementary school, still living in Arlington, Massachusetts, USA. I've lived there almost 8 years now, the longest I've ever lived in one place in my entire life!
My interests (besides Perl!) include hiking, backpacking, rock and ice climbing, canoeing, sailing, and triathlon. I've also become very "bad" at "go fish" since I've had kids...I never knew losing could be so much fun!(Updated 03/30/2005)I've dropped the triathloning(ok, it was just training, never actually did one), haven't done any backpacking or ice climbing and not much rock climbing in the last several years, though I have great hopes for the future. On the other hand, I have been learning to play acoustic guitar and learning Spanish(I am now at an intermediate level and can understand a lot of what I hear in Spanish language movies and I do a lot of reading in Spanish. I have also learned to be much more subtle in 'losing' games to the kids. They used to get mad if they lost, now they get mad if I lose too obviously. My how the times they are a'changing!