Education and Career
At the beginning of June in 2003 I joined IBM Tucson as a co-op testing the Enterprise Storage Server (including the F Model, 800 Model, DS8000 and DS6000 lines). I remained with the Shark team until the summer of 2006. That summer I joined a speed team that was given the task to build a JSP based interface for an upcoming product. While finishing up the last semester of my senior year, I received another co-op position for DFSMSdss. That fall I graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering with Minors in Math, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science. After graduation I formally accepted a position with the DFSMSdss team in the fall of 2006.
Two years down the road, I am still working for DFSMSdss team as Software Engineer. Occasionally I can be seen programming in PL/X, but for the most part I provide quality assurance by writing JCL testcases to exercise the DFSMSdss product.
Extracaricular
Outside the normal grind I have an AWESOME editor that I write part time for over at Kallasoft. When I get the itch for a homebrew experimentation I prefer writing in Cocoa, Java, or Ruby. That being said, I have been known to churn out an a.out file every now and again.
For the last couple of months I have been taking language classes at the local community college with my girlfriend. We have spent a good deal of time memorizing and learning how to reproduce the various Asian characters for Chinese and Japanese. When not sitting in class or behind a computer monitor, you can usually catch us playing roller hockey at Bladeworld.
