Background
I started programming and building computers in the early 1990s. I worked with
QBASIC for about two years and then a neighbor gave me an extra copy of Visual
Basic 3 he received from his office that he didn't need. I was instantly hooked
on Windows software development.
Shortly after this I started learning about TCP/IP and HTML. Before too long I was pretty proficient in both and was writing visual basic applications to work across networks as well as the Internet.
By the late 1990s I had dived into Linux, C, C++ as well as some basic x86 assembly language. I knew a good deal of Windows API to do everything from controlling other applications to writing video game engines (local mirror) with friends.
In the summer of 2000 I took my first real job. I was hired by a small web development firm to help manage the systems they worked on and keep the network going day to day. Soon after I was hired one of their new developers quit and I wound up filling the developers duties as well as my other day to day responsibilities.
After graduating from high school in 2001 I started looking around at the job market again. Nothing really sparked my interest. The place I had worked the previous summer seemed to be flailing. I eventually wound up working for them part time but the work flow quickly died.
After more searching and following leads from friends I eventually landed a great job. Software development with Visual Basic. Starting in 2003 I worked there full time until September 2006. I was also involved in the development and SEO process of the website where I really got to know more about PHP and it's connection to MySQL a little better, as well as the inner workings of Apache.
As that new job dealt with interfacing microcontrollers (read: computer-on-a-chip) I started playing around with their own assembly language in my spare time. At some point in the future I would like to bring some of my own products to market but not any time soon.
In September of 2006 a coworker and I resigned from our jobs there and branched out to work on our own business venture, a company we had already been running in our spare time for quite some time with the help of several friends.
Shortly after this I started learning about TCP/IP and HTML. Before too long I was pretty proficient in both and was writing visual basic applications to work across networks as well as the Internet.
By the late 1990s I had dived into Linux, C, C++ as well as some basic x86 assembly language. I knew a good deal of Windows API to do everything from controlling other applications to writing video game engines (local mirror) with friends.
In the summer of 2000 I took my first real job. I was hired by a small web development firm to help manage the systems they worked on and keep the network going day to day. Soon after I was hired one of their new developers quit and I wound up filling the developers duties as well as my other day to day responsibilities.
After graduating from high school in 2001 I started looking around at the job market again. Nothing really sparked my interest. The place I had worked the previous summer seemed to be flailing. I eventually wound up working for them part time but the work flow quickly died.
After more searching and following leads from friends I eventually landed a great job. Software development with Visual Basic. Starting in 2003 I worked there full time until September 2006. I was also involved in the development and SEO process of the website where I really got to know more about PHP and it's connection to MySQL a little better, as well as the inner workings of Apache.
As that new job dealt with interfacing microcontrollers (read: computer-on-a-chip) I started playing around with their own assembly language in my spare time. At some point in the future I would like to bring some of my own products to market but not any time soon.
In September of 2006 a coworker and I resigned from our jobs there and branched out to work on our own business venture, a company we had already been running in our spare time for quite some time with the help of several friends.